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Testing quantum expanders is co-QMA-complete

Quantum Physics 2013-06-04 v2

Abstract

A quantum expander is a unital quantum channel that is rapidly mixing, has only a few Kraus operators, and can be implemented efficiently on a quantum computer. We consider the problem of estimating the mixing time (i.e., the spectral gap) of a quantum expander. We show that this problem is co-QMA-complete. This has applications to testing randomized constructions of quantum expanders, and studying thermalization of open quantum systems.

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@article{arxiv.1210.0787,
  title  = {Testing quantum expanders is co-QMA-complete},
  author = {Adam D. Bookatz and Stephen P. Jordan and Yi-Kai Liu and Pawel Wocjan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.0787},
  year   = {2013}
}
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