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Foil 23 General Structure of Physical Optimization

From Physical Optimization and Physical Computation CPSP713 Case studies in Computational Science -- Spring Semester 1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Energy = Real Goal (S d)
    • + (*)
    • + (**)
Consider a physical system with this energy function at temperature T
Minimize F = free energy = E - TS as T ® 0
Use "mean field" approximation to make annealing deterministic

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