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3-Local Hamiltonian is QMA-complete

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v2 Computational Complexity

Abstract

It has been shown by Kitaev that the 5-local Hamiltonian problem is QMA-complete. Here we reduce the locality of the problem by showing that 3-local Hamiltonian is already QMA-complete.

Cite

@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0302079,
  title  = {3-Local Hamiltonian is QMA-complete},
  author = {Julia Kempe and Oded Regev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0302079},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

7 pages, minor changes and corrections, published version