Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 224, 15–16 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2015-02338-0

Review

Comparison of quantum annealing and simulated annealing

Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology Oh-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan

Received: 13 July 2014
Revised: 16 December 2014
Published online: 5 February 2015

Abstract

A brief description is given on the present status of the theory of quantum annealing from author's perspective. An emphasis is given on comparison of quantum annealing and simulated annealing.