Bound on annealing performance from stochastic thermodynamics, with application to simulated annealing

Y Luo, YZ Zhen, X Liu, D Ebler, O Dahlsten - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
Annealing is the process of gradually lowering the temperature of a system to guide it
towards its lowest energy states. In an accompanying paper [Y. Luo et al., Phys. Rev. E 108 …