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Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Quantum annealing by ferromagnetic interaction with the mean-field scheme

Sei Suzuki, Hidetoshi Nishimori

Published Apr 30, 2007• 3 citations
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10.1016/j.physa.2007.04.077

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