Noise‐enhanced quantum annealing approach and its application in plug‐in hybrid electric vehicle charging optimization

Abstract

Abstract A noise‐enhanced quantum annealing algorithm is proposed for an efficient annealing process to obtain the optimal solution. Simultaneous multiple noises are introduced as the kinetic energy term into the Schrödinger equation, which effectively reduces the probability of the algorithm falling into a local optimum by the parallel annealing process. The experimental results on the numerical optimisation problem and a real‐world plug‐in hybrid electric vehicles charging problem show that the proposed scheme is very competitive.

Keywords

• Other topics in statistics
• Optimisation techniques
• Transportation