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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 128, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.170502
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This study focuses on quantum annealing in the quantum Ising model coupled to a thermal environment. The system evolves following the instantaneous thermal equilibrium when the quantum annealing speed is sufficiently slow, but fails near the end of annealing. The authors propose a phenomenological theory based on this phenomenon, which is numerically confirmed using a novel non-Markovian method.
We study quantum annealing in the quantum Ising model coupled to a thermal environment. When the speed of quantum annealing is sufficiently slow, the system evolves following the instantaneous thermal equilibrium. This quasistatic and isothermal evolution, however, fails near the end of annealing because the relaxation time grows infinitely, therefore yielding excess energy from the thermal equilibrium. We develop a phenomenological theory based on this picture and derive a scaling relation of the excess energy after annealing. The theoretical results are numerically confirmed using a novel non-Markovian method that we recently proposed based on a path-integral representation of the reduced density matrix and the infinite time evolving block decimation. In addition, we discuss crossovers from weak to strong coupling as well as from the adiabatic to quasistatic regime, and propose experiments on the D-Wave quantum annealer.
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