The first-order liquid-liquid transition (LLT), a hot topic of condensed matter physics and materials science per se, has drawn much attention particularly from researchers in water science since 1992 ...

Quantum annealers of D-Wave Systems, Inc., offer an efficient way to compute high quality solutions of NP-hard problems. This is done by mapping a problem onto the physical qubits of the quantum chip, ...

DUBLIN, Ireland — Ireland's Magnetic Solutions Ltd. has launched a new magnetic annealing tool that doubles the throughput of MRAMs and related devices in the production environment, the company said.

The D-Wave quantum annealer isn’t a general-purpose computer, in that it can only solve a set of problems that can be structured as energy minimizations. And even on those problems, D-Wave employees ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research shows how to implement simulated annealing for the Traveling Salesman Problem (find the best ordering of a set of discrete items). The goal of a combinatorial ...