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We construct zero-error quantum finite automata (QFAs) for promise problems which cannot be solved by bounded-error probabilistic finite automata (PFAs). Here is a summary of our results: - There is a promise problem solvable by an exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-11 Jibran Rashid , Abuzer Yakaryilmaz

We present a quantum algorithm to prepare injective PEPS on a quantum computer, a class of open tensor networks representing quantum states. The run-time of our algorithm scales polynomially with the inverse of the minimum condition number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Martin Schwarz , Kristan Temme , Frank Verstraete

The class QMA(k), introduced by Kobayashi et al., consists of all languages that can be verified using k unentangled quantum proofs. Many of the simplest questions about this class have remained embarrassingly open: for example, can we give…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-17 Scott Aaronson , Salman Beigi , Andrew Drucker , Bill Fefferman , Peter Shor

This paper gives a QMA (Quantum Merlin-Arthur) protocol for 3-SAT with two logarithmic-size quantum proofs (that are not entangled with each other) such that the gap between the completeness and the soundness is Omega(1/n polylog(n)). This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Francois Le Gall , Shota Nakagawa , Harumichi Nishimura

We prove that QIP(2), the class of problems having two-message quantum interactive proof systems, is a subset of PSPACE. This relationship is obtained by means of an efficient parallel algorithm, based on the multiplicative weights update…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-05-11 Rahul Jain , Sarvagya Upadhyay , John Watrous

All Hamiltonian complexity results to date have been proven by constructing a local Hamiltonian whose ground state -- or at least some low-energy state -- is a "computational history state", encoding a quantum computation as a superposition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Carlos E. González-Guillén , Toby S. Cubitt

We study the computational complexity of the Local Hamiltonian problem under the promise that its ground state is succinctly represented. We show that the Succinct State 2-Local Hamiltonian problem, for qubit Hamiltonians, is (promise)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Gabriel Waite , Karl Lin

Quantum Merlin-Arthur proof systems are believed to be stronger than both their classical counterparts and ``stand-alone'' quantum computers when Arthur is assumed to operate in $\Omega(\log n)$ space. No hint of such an advantage over…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-14 A. C. Cem Say

The calculation of ground-state energies of physical systems can be formalised as the k-local Hamiltonian problem, which is the natural quantum analogue of classical constraint satisfaction problems. One way of making the problem more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-29 Toby Cubitt , Ashley Montanaro

We prove an analytical expression for the size of the gap between the ground and the first excited state of quantum adiabatic algorithm for the 3-satisfiability, where the initial Hamiltonian is a projector on the subspace complementary to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Marko Znidaric , Martin Horvat

In this paper we consider quantum interactive proof systems, i.e., interactive proof systems in which the prover and verifier may perform quantum computations and exchange quantum messages. It is proved that every language in PSPACE has a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 John Watrous

Recently it was shown that the so-called guided local Hamiltonian problem -- estimating the smallest eigenvalue of a $k$-local Hamiltonian when provided with a description of a quantum state ('guiding state') that is guaranteed to have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 Chris Cade , Marten Folkertsma , Jordi Weggemans

We present a polynomial-time quantum algorithm making a single query (in superposition) to a classical oracle, such that for every state $|\psi\rangle$ there exists a choice of oracle that makes the algorithm construct an exponentially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Gregory Rosenthal

In complexity theory, gap-preserving reductions play a crucial role in studying hardness of approximation and in analyzing the relative complexity of multiprover interactive proof systems. In the quantum setting, multiprover interactive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Laura Mančinska , Pieter Spaas , Taro Spirig , Matthijs Vernooij

It has been shown that, starting from the state |0>, in the general case, an arbitrary quantum state |\psi> cannot be prepared with exponential precision in polynomial time. However, we show that for the important special case when |\psi>…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Jaksch

Projected entangled pair states (PEPS) constitute a variational family of quantum states with area-law entanglement. PEPS are particularly relevant and successful for studying ground states of spatially local Hamiltonians. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Dylan Harley , Freek Witteveen , Daniel Malz

Complexity theory traditionally studies the hardness of solving classical computational problems. In the quantum setting, it is also natural to consider a different notion of complexity, namely the complexity of physically preparing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-11 Tony Metger , Henry Yuen

A frustration-free local Hamiltonian has the property that its ground state minimises the energy of all local terms simultaneously. In general, even deciding whether a Hamiltonian is frustration-free is a hard task, as it is closely related…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-15 András Gilyén , Or Sattath

We give a quantum interactive proof system for the local Hamiltonian problem on n qubits in which (i) the verifier has a single round of interaction with five entangled provers, (ii) the verifier sends a classical message on O(log n) bits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 Joseph Fitzsimons , Thomas Vidick

We introduce the quantum complexity class FQMA. This class describes the complexity of generating a quantum state that serves as a witness for a given QMA problem. In a certain sense, FQMA is the quantum analogue of FNP (function problems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dominik Janzing , Pawel Wocjan , Thomas Beth