https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1302.5843/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23101518urn:hackerpapers:mention:1302.5843:23101518Thu, 07 May 2020 10:35:54 GMT<p>This. Essentially, all the quantum annealing stuff that D-Wave does follows the patter of mapping a problem onto a spin glass and then finding the ground state with annealing. The only really interesting theoretical aspect is finding good maps form hard problems to spin glasses. This is a nice reference: https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.5843</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1302.5843/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cond-mat.stat-mech