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@INPROCEEDINGS{Michielsen:824916,
author = {Michielsen, Kristel},
title = {{S}olving hard 2-{SAT} problems on a {D}-{W}ave {T}wo
system},
reportid = {FZJ-2016-07417},
year = {2016},
abstract = {Solving a 2-satisfiability (2-SAT) problem amounts to
finding whether a collection of two-valued variableswith
constraints on pairs of variables can be assigned values
satisfying all the constraints. 2-SAT problemscan be solved
in polynomial time, in contrast to the general k-SAT
problems which are NP-complete. Weconsider computationally
hard 2-SAT problems with a unique satisfying assignment,
that is with a uniqueground state [1]. Other characteristics
of these hard 2-SAT problems are that the energy gap between
theground state and the first-excited state is small and
that they have a highly degenerate first-excited state.The
first makes it hard to solve the problem by quantum
annealing as can be seen from the Landau-Zenertransition
formula and the latter makes a classical search in terms of
simulated annealing hard as thechance of getting trapped in
a local minimum is high.We study 2-SAT problems with 8, 12
and 18 variables (or Ising spins in the physics language).
For theseproblems we numerically calculate the exact value
of the gap between the ground state and the
first-excitedstates which gives information about the
computational complexity for solving the problems with
quantumannealing.We report about a comparison of the
frequencies for finding the ground state, as obtained with
theD-Wave Two and a digital computer emulating the dynamics
of an ideal adiabatic quantum computer bysolving the
time-dependent Schrödinger equation for a system of
interacting, localized spin-1/2 particles atzero
temperature. Our analysis indicates that the D-Wave Two
processor does not perform “ideal” quantumannealing and
that more research is necessary to investigate the effects
of e.g. temperature, imperfectionsetc.},
month = {Dec},
date = {2016-12-05},
organization = {IAS Symposium 2016, Juelich (Germany),
5 Dec 2016 - 6 Dec 2016},
subtyp = {After Call},
cin = {JSC},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)JSC-20090406},
pnm = {511 - Computational Science and Mathematical Methods
(POF3-511)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-511},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)6},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/824916},
}