“General Bound on Thermodynamic Annealing Performance in Finding Global Minimum of a Cost Landscape”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38115520

This study derives a general bound on the performance of thermodynamic annealing in finding the global minimum of a cost landscape, depending on the amount of state updates and accumulation of nonequilibrium energy, and offers a physical approach to assess annealing performance from accessible parameters.