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First order phase transition in the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm

arXiv:0910.1378 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.020502

Abstract

We simulate the quantum adiabatic algorithm (QAA) for the exact cover problem for sizes up to N=256 using quantum Monte Carlo simulations incorporating parallel tempering. At large N we find that some instances have a discontinuous (first order) quantum phase transition during the evolution of the QAA. This fraction increases with increasing N and may tend to 1 for N -> infinity.

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