Wednesday, February 29, 2012

1202.6257 (Daniel Nagaj et al.)

Quantum Speedup by Quantum Annealing    [PDF]

Daniel Nagaj, Rolando D. Somma, Maria Kieferova
We study the glued-trees problem of Childs et. al. in the adiabatic model of quantum computing and provide an annealing schedule to solve an oracular problem exponentially faster than classically possible. The Hamiltonians involved in the quantum annealing do not suffer from the so-called sign problem. Unlike the typical scenario, our schedule is efficient even though the minimum energy gap of the Hamiltonians is exponentially small in the problem size. We discuss generalizations based on initial-state randomization to avoid some slowdowns in adiabatic quantum computing due to small gaps.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.6257

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