Hidetoshi Nishimori: "Theory of Quantum Annealing"Hidetoshi Nishimori visited Google LA on March 28, 2014 to give a talk: "Theory of Quantum Annealing" Abstract: Quantum annealing is a generic framework, metaheuristic, for combinatorial optimization. I will first review the basic formulation of quantum annealing and numerical evidence for its performance, particularly in comparison with classical simulated annealing. I will then explain a few
