Leveraging Landau-Zener-Stückelberg interference for accelerating diabatic quantum annealing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.09706v1
• Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:25:42 GMT
• Title: Leveraging Landau-Zener-Stückelberg interference for accelerating diabatic quantum annealing
• Abstract summary: We identify Landau-Zener-Stckelberg interference as the underlying mechanism for this speedup.<n>We show analytically that the classical optimization of the schedule parameters can be done in time.<n>We observe substantial improvements over adiabatic annealing and competitive performance in challenging problem instances.
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• Abstract: Diabatic quantum annealing with variationally optimized schedules can exhibit exponential speedups over conventional adiabatic quantum annealing, as was demonstrated numerically for a frustrated Ising ring model by C{ô}t{é} et al. Here we identify Landau-Zener-St{ü}ckelberg interference as the underlying mechanism for this speedup, and based on this insight we propose a variational schedule ansatz with far fewer parameters. This simplified ansatz allows us to show analytically that the classical optimization of the schedule parameters can be done in polynomial time and discuss conditions when we expect this type of mechanism to provide speedups over adiabatic annealing. Furthermore, we provide an analytical argument that coherence is an essential resource for this mechanism, which we verify numerically. We perform extensive numerical tests of the proposed ansatz and observe substantial improvements over adiabatic annealing and competitive performance in particularly challenging problem instances, including a well-studied MAXCUT instance commonly used for benchmarking. Our work shows that explicitly leveraging physical mechanisms can lead to more effective designs of variational annealing algorithms.

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