QUANTUM ANNEALING AND COMPUTATION: THIRTY YEARS OF RESEARCH ON DELOCALIZATION IN QUANTUM SPIN GLASSES

摘要

The idea of computation by breaking it up into elementary operations like addition, subtraction, etc, allowing them to recast into number crunching arithmetic, has become very popular. This is because, it could finally be achieved using the basic logic gates AND, OR, NOT, etc, and binary digitization of the numbers then made way for the digital computers employing ever faster electronic gates.