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The ground state energy and the free energy of Quantum Local Hamiltonians are fundamental quantities in quantum many-body physics, however, it is QMA-Hard to estimate them in general. In this paper, we develop new techniques to find…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Thiago Bergamaschi

We consider the complexity of the local Hamiltonian problem in the context of fermionic Hamiltonians with $\mathcal N=2 $ supersymmetry and show that the problem remains $\mathsf{QMA}$-complete. Our main motivation for studying this is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-01 Chris Cade , P. Marcos Crichigno

Understanding the entanglement structure of local Hamiltonian ground spaces is a physically motivated problem, with applications ranging from tensor network design to quantum error-correcting codes. To this end, we study the complexity of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Sevag Gharibian , Jonas Kamminga

Previously, all known variants of the Quantum Satisfiability (QSAT) problem, i.e. deciding whether a $k$-local ($k$-body) Hamiltonian is frustration-free, could be classified as being either in $\mathsf{P}$; or complete for $\mathsf{NP}$,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Ricardo Rivera Cardoso , Alex Meiburg , Daniel Nagaj

In this paper, we study variants of the canonical Local-Hamiltonian problem where, in addition, the witness is promised to be separable. We define two variants of the Local-Hamiltonian problem. The input for the Separable-Local-Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-14 André Chailloux , Or Sattath

Suppose we have an n-qubit system, and we are given a collection of local density matrices rho_1,...,rho_m, where each rho_i describes some subset of the qubits. We say that rho_1,...,rho_m are "consistent" if there exists a global state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yi-Kai Liu

The local Hamiltonian (LH) problem, the quantum analog of the classical constraint satisfaction problem, is a cornerstone of quantum computation and complexity theory. It is known to be QMA-complete, indicating that it is challenging even…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Yukun Zhang , Yusen Wu , Xiao Yuan

We study the computational difficulty of computing the ground state degeneracy and the density of states for local Hamiltonians. We show that the difficulty of both problems is exactly captured by a class which we call #BQP, which is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-22 Brielin Brown , Steven T. Flammia , Norbert Schuch

Motivated by understanding the power of quantum computation with restricted number of qubits, we give two complete characterizations of unitary quantum space bounded computation. First we show that approximating an element of the inverse of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-22 Bill Fefferman , Cedric Yen-Yu Lin

We present a constructive solution to the N-representability problem---a full characterization of the conditions for constraining the two-electron reduced density matrix (2-RDM) to represent an N-electron density matrix. Previously known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-04 David A. Mazziotti

Neural quantum states (NQS) have emerged as a promising approach to solve second-quantized Hamiltonians, because of their scalability and flexibility. In this work, we design and benchmark an NQS impurity solver for the quantum embedding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-16 Yinzhanghao Zhou , Tsung-Han Lee , Ao Chen , Nicola Lanatà , Hong Guo

The quantum k-Local Hamiltonian problem is a natural generalization of classical constraint satisfaction problems (k-CSP) and is complete for QMA, a quantum analog of NP. Although the complexity of k-Local Hamiltonian problems has been well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 Ojas Parekh , Kevin Thompson

The local Hamiltonian problem consists of estimating the ground-state energy (given by the minimum eigenvalue) of a local quantum Hamiltonian. First, we show the existence of a good product-state approximation for the ground-state energy of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 Fernando G. S. L. Brandão , Aram W. Harrow

The problem 2-LOCAL HAMILTONIAN has been shown to be complete for the quantum computational class QMA, see quant-ph/0406180. In this paper we show that this important problem remains QMA-complete when the interactions of the 2-local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-17 Roberto Oliveira , Barbara M. Terhal

We study the complexity of computational problems from quantum physics. Typically, they are studied using the complexity class QMA (quantum counterpart of NP) but some natural computational problems appear to be slightly harder than QMA. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-11 Andris Ambainis

We show that finding the lowest eigenvalue of a 3-local symmetric stochastic matrix is QMA-complete. We also show that finding the highest energy of a stoquastic Hamiltonian is QMA-complete and that adiabatic quantum computation using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Stephen P. Jordan , David Gosset , Peter J. Love

Many quantum algorithms, including recently proposed hybrid classical/quantum algorithms, make use of restricted tomography of the quantum state that measures the reduced density matrices, or marginals, of the full state. The most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Nicholas C. Rubin , Ryan Babbush , Jarrod McClean

We study three variants of multi-prover quantum Merlin-Arthur proof systems. We first show that the class of problems that can be efficiently verified using polynomially many quantum proofs, each of logarithmic-size, is exactly MQA (also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-16 Sevag Gharibian , Jamie Sikora , Sarvagya Upadhyay

Counting ground state degeneracy of a $k$-local Hamiltonian is important in many fields of physics. Its complexity belongs to the problem of sharp bounded-error quantum polynomial time (#BQP) class and few methods are known for its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Zhen Guo , Li You

The question of whether given density operators for subsystems of a multipartite quantum system are compatible to one common total density operator is known as the quantum marginal problem. We briefly review the solution of a subclass of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-07 Christian Schilling