Figure 6From: Improving quantum annealing by engineering the coupling to the environmentTime evolution of χ for a non-complete random graph for 5 qubits and fixed \(\tau =0.5\). All five qubits are coupled to the environment with the same strength, hence all \(\kappa _{i}\) are equal to κ. The gray dashed line shows the probability expected for the final ground state in thermal equilibrium. The coloured solid lines are for non-optimized open systems with \(0.001 \le \kappa \le 0.007\). The top solid black line is for the optimised system while the bottom solid black line corresponds to an isolated systemBack to article page