Figure : Example energy trajectory of an annealing simulation with 100 replicas. Each replica's energy trajectory is shown in a different color. The annealing temperature of these simulations is drawn as a smooth red line with axis on the right side. In this particular trajectory we see a bifurcation of trajectories as the simulation transitions from the exploratory regime to the exhaustive regime, as some go visit the minima close to the global minimum but others are trapped in higher minima. The location and magnitude of the transition region can vary significantly between models.