| Literature DB >> 20366577 |
A P Young1, S Knysh, V N Smelyanskiy.
Abstract
We simulate the quantum adiabatic algorithm (QAA) for the exact cover problem for sizes up to N=256 using quantum Monte Carlo simulations incorporating parallel tempering. At large N, we find that some instances have a discontinuous (first-order) quantum phase transition during the evolution of the QAA. This fraction increases with increasing N and may tend to 1 for N-->infinity.Year: 2010 PMID: 20366577 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.020502
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Phys Rev Lett ISSN: 0031-9007 Impact factor: 9.161