Comparison To Simulated Annealing
Quantum annealing can be compared to simulated annealing (SA), whose "temperature" parameter plays a similar role to QA's tunneling field strength. However, in SA the neighborhood stays the same throughout the search, and the temperature determines the probability of moving to a state of higher "energy". In QA, the tunneling field strength determines instead the neighborhood radius, i.e. the mean distance between the next candidate state and the current candidate state.
In more elaborated SA variants (such as Adaptive simulated annealing), the neighborhood radius is also varied using acceptance rate percentages or the temperature value.
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