# Best-case performance of quantum annealers on native spin-glass benchmarks: How chaos can affect success probabilities

@article{Zhu2015BestcasePO,
title={Best-case performance of quantum annealers on native spin-glass benchmarks: How chaos can affect success probabilities},
author={Zheng Zhu and Andrew J. Ochoa and Stefan Schnabel and Firas Hamze and Helmut G. Katzgraber},
journal={Physical Review A},
year={2015},
volume={93},
pages={012317}
}
• Published 4 March 2015
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Recent tests performed on the D-Wave Two quantum annealer have revealed no clear evidence of speedup over conventional silicon-based technologies. Here we present results from classical parallel-tempering Monte Carlo simulations combined with isoenergetic cluster moves of the archetypal benchmark problem---an Ising spin glass---on the native chip topology. Using realistic uncorrelated noise models for the D-Wave Two quantum annealer, we study the best-case resilience, i.e., the probability that…
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