Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
2006-08-18
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
9 pages, 4 figures, REVTex 4
Scientific paper
We present an implementation of Quantum Annealing (QA) via lattice Green's function Monte Carlo (GFMC), focusing on its application to the Ising spin-glass in transverse field. In particular, we study whether or not such method is more effective than the Path-Integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) based QA, as well as classical simulated annealing (CA), previously tested on the same optimization problem. We identify the issue of importance sampling, i.e., the necessity of possessing reasonably good (variational) trial wavefunctions, as the key point of the algorithm. We have considered two possible classes of trial wavefunctions, a mean-field single-site one -- whose optimization is however a very difficult task -- and a Boltzmann-like choice. We performed GFMC-QA runs using such a Boltzmann-like trial wavefunction, finding results for the residual energies that are qualitatively similar to those of CA (but at a much larger computational cost), and definitely worse than PIMC-QA. We conclude that, at present, without a serious effort in constructing reliable importance sampling variational wavefunctions for a quantum glass, GFMC-QA is not a true competitor of PIMC-QA.
Santoro Giuseppe E.
Stella Lorenzo
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