Ball, Robin, Fink, Thomas M. A. and Bowler, Neill E. (2003) Stochastic annealing. Physical Review Letters, Vol.91 (No.3). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.030201

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Abstract

We show how to simulate a system in thermal equilibrium when the energy cannot be evaluated exactly: the error distribution needs to be symmetric, but it does not need to be known. We also solve the Ceperley-Dewing version of this problem, where the error distribution is taken to be fully known. These underlying ideas give an effective optimization strategy for problems where the evaluation of each design can be sampled only statistically, including an application to protein folding.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > Physics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Simulated annealing (Mathematics), Thermodynamic equilibrium
Journal or Publication Title:	Physical Review Letters
Publisher:	American Physical Society
ISSN:	0031-9007
Official Date:	14 July 2003
Dates:	Date Event 14 July 2003 Published
Volume:	Vol.91
Number:	No.3
Number of Pages:	4
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.030201
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access
Funder:	British Petroleum Company (BP), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

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