Quantum Annealing and Computation: A Brief Documentary Note

TL;DR

This paper discusses recent advances in quantum annealing as a form of analog quantum computation, highlighting historical developments, Indian research contributions, and key documents from influential papers and online sources.

Contribution

It provides a concise overview of quantum annealing's role in quantum computation, including historical context and Indian research efforts, supplementing previous literature.

Findings

Quantum annealing has recently achieved major breakthroughs.

Indian researchers have contributed significantly to this field.

Key documents and developments are summarized from influential sources.

Abstract

Major breakthrough in quantum computation has recently been achieved using quantum annealing to develop analog quantum computers instead of gate based computers. After a short introduction to quantum computation, we retrace very briefly the history of these developments and discuss the Indian researches in this connection and provide some interesting documents (in the Figs.) obtained from a chosen set of high impact papers (and also some recent news etc. blogs appearing in the Internet). This note is also designed to supplement an earlier note by Bose (Science and Culture, 79, pp. 337-378, 2013).