Quantum annealing in spin-boson model: from a perturbative to a ultrastrong mediated coupling

Abstract

We study a quantum annealer where bosons mediate the Ising-type interactions between qubits. We compare the efficiency of ground state preparation for direct and mediated couplings, for which Ising and spin-boson Hamiltonian are employed respectively. This comparison is done numerically for a small frustrated antiferromagnet, with a careful choice of the optimal adiabatic passage that reveals the features of the boson-mediated interactions. Those features can be explained by taking into account what we called excited solutions: states with the same spin correlations as the ground-state but with a larger bosonic occupancy. For similar frequencies of the bosons and qubits, the performance of quantum annealing depends on how excited solutions interchange population with local spin errors. We report an enhancement of quantum annealing thanks to this interchange under certain circumstances.

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