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Fair Sampling by Simulated Annealing on Quantum Annealer

Masayuki Yamamoto, Masayuki Ohzeki, Kazuyuki Tanaka

2020Journal of the Physical Society of Japan29 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

Conventional quantum annealing does not sample all ground states fairly. We demonstrate that fair sampling can be achieved by performing simulated annealing on a quantum annealer. We discuss the problems that occur when implementing this method and propose an alternative way to overcome them. We numerically verify the fair sampling ability of our method in a small-scale toy model.

Topics & Concepts

Quantum annealingSimulated annealingQuantumSampling (signal processing)Statistical physicsImportance samplingComputer scienceComputational physicsAnnealing (glass)AlgorithmSample (material)Quantum computerPhysicsMaterials scienceComputer simulationQuantum stateQuantum Computing Algorithms and ArchitectureQuantum Information and CryptographyQuantum Mechanics and Applications