Increase of degeneracy improves the performance of the quantum adiabatic algorithm

We propose a strategy to improve the performance of the quantum adiabatic algorithm (QAA) on an NP-hard (nondeterministic-polynomial-time-hard) problem exact cover, by increasing the ground-state degeneracy of the problem Hamiltonian. Our strategy is based on the empirical finding that for the QAA t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zhuang, Quntao
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/91591
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-3846