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by sp332 3457 days ago
The advantage of a quantum annealer is in cases where there is a large, narrow spike in the way of moving to a good solution. The quantum optimizer has a chance of "tunneling" through the spike to find a better solution. A classical version of simulated annealing would have to "climb" over the spike, or more likely just be stuck on the wrong side.