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Quantum Annealing employs quantum fluctuations in frustrated systems/networks to anneal the system down to its ground state or to its minimum cost state (tuning the quantum fluctuations). Often, this can be more effective over the classical annealing, performed utilising (tunable) thermal fluctuations. The effectiveness comes from the fact that unlike with thermal fluctuations where the system has to scale the barrier height, quantum fluctuations can help tunnelling through these, even (integrable) infinite barriers. Apart from the recent theoretical demonstrations, this has recently been demonstrated experimentally.
We intend to discuss the problems and recent achievements in details. It will be for introducing these developments to the graduate students. We understand, this will be the first International meeeting on this topic and its Proceedings (containing the detailed introductory lecture notes from the pioneers in the field) is also expected to help introducing these techniques to wider group of researchers. Springer-Verlag has published the Proceedings of the Workshop as a volume (Vol. 679) of its LNP series.