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Spin Systems and Computational Complexity

Quantum Physics 2010-08-25 v1

Abstract

I give a very brief non-technical introduction to the intersection of the fields of spin systems and computational complexity. The focus is on spin glasses and their relationship to NP-complete problems.

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@article{arxiv.0911.5596,
  title  = {Spin Systems and Computational Complexity},
  author = {Daniel Gottesman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.5596},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

3 pages, prepared for a special issue of Physics in Canada

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