Hysteretic optimization is a recently proposed heuristic optimization method inspired by the demagnetization of magnetic materials by an alternating external field of decreasing amplitude. So far the method has been implemented by changing the field very slowly. Here we show that changing the...

Hysteretic optimization is a heuristic optimization method based on the observation that magnetic samples are driven into a low-energy state when demagnetized by an oscillating magnetic field of decreasing amplitude. We show that hysteretic optimization is very good for finding ground states of...