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Two QCMA-complete problems

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

QMA and QCMA are possible quantum analogues of the complexity class NP. In QCMA the verifier is a quantum program and the proof is classical. In contrast, in QMA the proof is also a quantum state. We show that two known QMA-complete problems can be modified to QCMA-complete problems in a natural way: (1) Deciding whether a 3-local Hamiltonian has low energy states (with energy smaller than a given value) that can be prepared with at most k elementary gates is QCMA-complete, whereas it is QMA-complete when the restriction on the complexity of preparation is dropped. (2) Deciding whether a (classically described) quantum circuit acts almost as the identity on all basis states is QCMA-complete. It is QMA-complete to decide whether it acts on all states almost as the identity.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0305090,
  title  = {Two QCMA-complete problems},
  author = {Pawel Wocjan and Dominik Janzing and Thomas Beth},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0305090},
  year   = {2007}
}

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