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Classical computation of electronic properties in large-scale materials remains challenging. Quantum computation has the potential to offer advantages in memory footprint and computational scaling. However, general and practical quantum…

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We study the growth of the ground state degeneracy in the Kronecker model of quiver quantum mechanics. This is the simplest quiver with two gauge groups and bifundamental matter fields, and appears universally in the context of BPS state…

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We determine the computational power of preparing Projected Entangled Pair States (PEPS), as well as the complexity of classically simulating them, and generally the complexity of contracting tensor networks. While creating PEPS allows to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Norbert Schuch , Michael M. Wolf , Frank Verstraete , J. Ignacio Cirac

We prove that recognizing the phase of matter of an unknown quantum state is quantum computationally hard. More specifically, we show that the quantum computational time of any phase recognition algorithm must grow exponentially in the…

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We study the complexity of a class of problems involving satisfying constraints which remain the same under translations in one or more spatial directions. In this paper, we show hardness of a classical tiling problem on an N x N…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-25 Daniel Gottesman , Sandy Irani

Understanding the computational complexity of learning efficient classical programs in various learning models has been a fundamental and important question in classical computational learning theory. In this work, we study the…

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Classical-quantum computational complexity separations are an important motivation for the long-term development of digital quantum computers, but classical-quantum complexity equivalences are just as important in our present era of noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-10 Jonathan E. Moussa

Hamiltonian Learning (HL) is essential for validating quantum systems in quantum computing. Not all Hamiltonians can be uniquely recovered from a steady state. HL success depends on the Hamiltonian model and steady state. Here, we analyze…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Jing Zhou , D. L. Zhou

We present a Hamiltonian quantum computation scheme universal for quantum computation (BQP). Our Hamiltonian is a sum of a polynomial number (in the number of gates L in the quantum circuit) of time-independent, constant-norm, 2-local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Daniel Nagaj

A method is presented in which the ground-state subspace is projected out of a Hamiltonian representation. As a result of this projection, an effective Hamiltonian is constructed where its ground-state coincides with an excited-state of the…

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We present a quantum-classical hybrid random power method that approximates a ground state of a Hamiltonian. The quantum part of our method computes a fixed number of elements of a Hamiltonian-matrix polynomial via quantum polynomial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Taehee Ko , Hyowon Park , Sangkook Choi

This article surveys quantum computational complexity, with a focus on three fundamental notions: polynomial-time quantum computations, the efficient verification of quantum proofs, and quantum interactive proof systems. Properties of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-23 John Watrous

We construct a quantum oracle relative to which $\mathsf{BQP} = \mathsf{QMA}$ but cryptographic pseudorandom quantum states and pseudorandom unitary transformations exist, a counterintuitive result in light of the fact that pseudorandom…

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For quantum many-body systems in one dimension, computational complexity theory reveals that the evaluation of ground-state energy remains elusive on quantum computers, contrasting the existence of a classical algorithm for temperatures…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-11 Atsushi Iwaki , Chisa Hotta

Given a multiparticle quantum state, one may ask whether it can be represented as a thermal state of some Hamiltonian with k-particle interactions only. The distance from the exponential family defined by these thermal states can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-08 Sönke Niekamp , Tobias Galla , Matthias Kleinmann , Otfried Gühne

Quantum complexity quantifies the difficulty of preparing a state or implementing a unitary transformation with limited resources. Applications range from quantum computation to condensed matter physics and quantum gravity. We seek to…

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Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-11 Zixuan Hu , Sabre Kais

We classify two-qubit commuting Hamiltonians in terms of their computational complexity. Suppose one has a two-qubit commuting Hamiltonian H which one can apply to any pair of qubits, starting in a computational basis state. We prove a…

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We give a practical method to exactly compute black hole entropy in the framework of Loop Quantum Gravity. Along the way we provide a complete characterization of the relevant sector of the spectrum of the area operator, including…

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Real quantum systems couple to their environment and lose their intrinsic quantum nature through the process known as decoherence. Here we present a method for minimizing decoherence by making it energetically unfavorable. We present a…

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