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Volume 26, Issue 3
Quantum Annealing with Anneal Path Control: Application to 2-SAT Problems with Known Energy Landscapes

Ting-Jui Hsu, Fengping Jin, Christian Seidel, Florian Neukart, Hans De Raedt & Kristel Michielsen

Commun. Comput. Phys., 26 (2019), pp. 928-946.

Published online: 2019-04

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We study the effect of the anneal path control per qubit, a new user control feature offered on the D-Wave 2000Q quantum annealer, on the performance of quantum annealing for solving optimization problems by numerically solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for the time-dependent Hamiltonian modeling the annealing problems. The anneal path control is thereby modeled as a modified linear annealing scheme, resulting in an advanced and retarded scheme. The considered optimization problems are 2-SAT problems with 12 Boolean variables, a known unique ground state and a highly degenerate first excited state. We show that adjustment of the anneal path control can result in a widening of the minimal spectral gap by one or two orders of magnitude and an enhancement of the success probability of finding the solution of the optimization problem. We scrutinize various iterative methods based on the spin floppiness, the average spin value, and on the average energy and describe their performance in boosting the quantum annealing process.

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We study the effect of the anneal path control per qubit, a new user control feature offered on the D-Wave 2000Q quantum annealer, on the performance of quantum annealing for solving optimization problems by numerically solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for the time-dependent Hamiltonian modeling the annealing problems. The anneal path control is thereby modeled as a modified linear annealing scheme, resulting in an advanced and retarded scheme. The considered optimization problems are 2-SAT problems with 12 Boolean variables, a known unique ground state and a highly degenerate first excited state. We show that adjustment of the anneal path control can result in a widening of the minimal spectral gap by one or two orders of magnitude and an enhancement of the success probability of finding the solution of the optimization problem. We scrutinize various iterative methods based on the spin floppiness, the average spin value, and on the average energy and describe their performance in boosting the quantum annealing process.

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TY - JOUR T1 - Quantum Annealing with Anneal Path Control: Application to 2-SAT Problems with Known Energy Landscapes JO - Communications in Computational Physics VL - 3 SP - 928 EP - 946 PY - 2019 DA - 2019/04 SN - 26 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2018-0257 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/13153.html KW - 2-SAT, D-Wave, anneal offset, quantum annealing, adiabatic quantum computing AB -

We study the effect of the anneal path control per qubit, a new user control feature offered on the D-Wave 2000Q quantum annealer, on the performance of quantum annealing for solving optimization problems by numerically solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for the time-dependent Hamiltonian modeling the annealing problems. The anneal path control is thereby modeled as a modified linear annealing scheme, resulting in an advanced and retarded scheme. The considered optimization problems are 2-SAT problems with 12 Boolean variables, a known unique ground state and a highly degenerate first excited state. We show that adjustment of the anneal path control can result in a widening of the minimal spectral gap by one or two orders of magnitude and an enhancement of the success probability of finding the solution of the optimization problem. We scrutinize various iterative methods based on the spin floppiness, the average spin value, and on the average energy and describe their performance in boosting the quantum annealing process.

Ting-Jui Hsu, Fengping Jin, Christian Seidel, Florian Neukart, Hans De Raedt & Kristel Michielsen. (2019). Quantum Annealing with Anneal Path Control: Application to 2-SAT Problems with Known Energy Landscapes. Communications in Computational Physics. 26 (3). 928-946. doi:10.4208/cicp.OA-2018-0257
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