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White cooling schedule

This schedule was due to Steve White [24] and probably the first significant study of cooling schedules. Much of the analysis there is on the expected energy in equilibrium at temperature T. Briefly, for temperatures approaching infinity or zero, the expected energy is limited by the energy of a randomly-chosen state or that of the global minimum, respectively. White's ideas proved to be seminal in the field and influenced the work of other researchers such as that of Otten and van Ginneken [25], in which they elaborated on the characterization of equilibrium quantities. Others, e.g. Lam and Delsome [26], have adapted to their schedules White's ideas of matching the move set to the temperature.



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