Annealing is the process of gradually lowering the temperature of a system to guide it towards its lowest energy states. In an accompanying paper [Y. Luo et al., Phys. Rev. E 108, L052105 (2023)10.1103/PhysRevE.108.L052105], we derived a general bound on annealing performance by connecting annealing with stochastic thermodynamics tools, including a speed limit on state transformation from entropy production. We here describe the derivation of the general bound in detail. In addition, we analyze the case of simulated annealing with Glauber dynamics in depth. We show how to bound the two case-specific quantities appearing in the bound, namely the activity, a measure of the number of microstate jumps, and the change in relative entropy between the state and the instantaneous thermal state, which is due to temperature variation. We exemplify the arguments by numerical simulations on the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick (SK) model of spin glasses.
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