Classical simulation and theory of quantum annealing in a thermal environment

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2102.02570v2
• Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 10:40:19 GMT
• Title: Classical simulation and theory of quantum annealing in a thermal environment
• Authors: Hiroki Oshiyama, Sei Suzuki, and Naokazu Shibata
• Abstract summary: We study quantum annealing in the quantum Ising model coupled to a thermal environment. This quasistatic and isothermal evolution, however, fails near the end of annealing because the relaxation time grows infinitely. We propose experiments on the D-Wave quantum annealer.
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• Abstract: 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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