Figure 4: Success probability and time to 99% success for each temperature as a function of anneal time.
From: Thermally assisted quantum annealing of a 16-qubit problem
(a) Final ground-state probability PGM as a function of annealing time for different temperatures. The error bars depict twice the s.e.m., assuming each sample is independent. (b) Total time required to achieve PGM=0.99 by annealing multiple times, as a function of the anneal time tf, computed using equation (3). In both (a and b), temperatures are coloured as in Fig. 3, including the extrapolated T=0 points (blue squares). The dashed blue lines are from fitting the expected closed-system behaviour equation (4) to the extrapolated points, giving ta=57.2 ms. Extrapolated PGM that is equal to 0 or 1 yields undefined ttotal.
