



@article {1268,
	title = {Experimental Performance of a Quantum Simulator: Optimizing Adiabatic  Evolution and Identifying Many-Body Ground States
},
	journal = {Physical Review A},
	volume = {88},
	year = {2013},
	month = {2013/7/31},
	abstract = {  We use local adiabatic evolution to experimentally create and determine the
ground state spin ordering of a fully-connected Ising model with up to 14
spins. Local adiabatic evolution -- in which the system evolution rate is a
function of the instantaneous energy gap -- is found to maximize the ground
state probability compared with other adiabatic methods while only requiring
knowledge of the lowest $\sim N$ of the $2^N$ Hamiltonian eigenvalues. We also
demonstrate that the ground state ordering can be experimentally identified as
the most probable of all possible spin configurations, even when the evolution
is highly non-adiabatic.
},
	doi = {10.1103/PhysRevA.88.012334},
	url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.2253v1},
	author = {Philip Richerme and Crystal Senko and Jacob Smith and Aaron Lee and Simcha Korenblit and Christopher Monroe}
}
