Quantum algorithms for finding spin glass ground states

Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting

Quantum algorithms for finding spin glass ground states

  • Event time: 3:00pm until 4:00pm
  • Event date: 18th March 2025
  • Speaker: (Strathclyde University  )
  • Location: Online - see email.

Event details

Methods to find the solution state for optimization problems encoded into Ising Hamiltonians are a very active area of current research. I will explain how this works using Ising spin glasses as the main example problem.  I will introduce various methods for finding low energy states, including adiabatic, quantum annealing and quantum walk algorithms, and discuss how some of these can be used in practice.