Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 224, 5–13 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2015-02337-1

Review

Quo Vadis quantum annealing?

¹ Theoretical Physics Department, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science 2A & 2B Raja S. C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, India
² Department of Liberal Arts, Saitama Medical University 38 Moro-hongo, Moroyama, Saitama 350-0495, Japan

^a e-mail: arnab.das.physics@gmail.com
^b e-mail: sei01@saitama-med.ac.jp

Received: 24 July 2014
Revised: 16 December 2014
Published online: 5 February 2015

Abstract

In this article we sketch a broad outline of quantum annealing as a framework for realizing analog quantum computation. We provide a short review of the basic ideas and discuss some issues relevant to the current scenario of condensed matter physics and quantum computation.