{
  "id": "0812.0694",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2008-12-03T11:18:05.000Z",
  "updated": "2008-12-03T11:18:05.000Z",
  "title": "Quantum annealing and the Schrödinger-Langevin-Kostin equation",
  "authors": [
    "Diego de Falco",
    "Dario Tamascelli"
  ],
  "comment": "5 pages, 4 figures. To appear on Physical Review A",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. A 79 (2009) 012315",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevA.79.012315",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "We show, in the context of quantum combinatorial optimization, or quantum annealing, how the nonlinear Schr\\\"odinger-Langevin-Kostin equation can dynamically drive the system toward its ground state. We illustrate, moreover, how a frictional force of Kostin type can prevent the appearance of genuinely quantum problems such as Bloch oscillations and Anderson localization which would hinder an exhaustive search.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2008-12-03T11:18:05.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "03.67.Lx",
      "03.67.Ac",
      "05.40.Fb",
      "42.65.Pc"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "schrödinger-langevin-kostin equation",
      "quantum annealing",
      "quantum combinatorial optimization",
      "frictional force",
      "bloch oscillations"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review A",
      "year": 2009,
      "month": "Jan",
      "volume": 79,
      "number": 1,
      "pages": "012315"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 5,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2009PhRvA..79a2315D"
    }
  }
}