Author(s): Damian S. Steiger, Troels F. Rønnow, and Matthias Troyer
Simulated quantum annealing, used in D-Wave systems, does not perform as well as classical annealing for computationally hard instances of the Ising spin glass problem, implying that median ‘time-to-solution’ is a poor measure of annealing algorithms.
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 230501] Published Fri Dec 04, 2015