Quantum Simulated Annealing - barnum.pdfQuantum Simulated Annealing Howard Barnum1 (presenting) & Rolando Somma2 Sergio Boixo1,3 Manny Knill 4 1Los Alamos National Laboratory 2Perimeter Institute 3University of New Mexico 4National Institute of Standards and Technology (Boulder) March 28, 2008 / Classical and Quantum Information Theory, Santa Fe, NM Introduction and outline Motivation Markov chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) algorithms, such as
