SampleSet energy
Hey everyone, how does dwave calculated sampleSet energy? I know that when we sample using (say) sample_ising(), we get a sampleSet object with: samples, energy of each sample and number of occurrences. My question is how does dwave find the energy associated with a particular sample?
I couldn't find many references on this online. Thanks!
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Hi Sehmimul,
The energy landscape is defined by the linear and quadratic biases of a problem formulation.
For example, consider an example where the objective function is -2a+b-4ab and a,b are binary variables. The solution space for this example is:
Submitting this problem to the QPU:
As expected, the example above returns the lowest energy solution with a=b=1 and energy -5.0.
You might also find our getting started guide helpful: https://docs.dwavesys.com/docs/latest/doc_getting_started.html
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