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The (tolerant) Hamiltonian locality testing problem, introduced in [Bluhm, Caro,Oufkir `24], is to determine whether a Hamiltonian $H$ is $\varepsilon_1$-close to being $k$-local (i.e. can be written as the sum of weight-$k$ Pauli…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 John Kallaugher , Daniel Liang

In this paper we study the problem of finding a small safe set $S$ in a graph $G$, i.e. a non-empty set of vertices such that no connected component of $G[S]$ is adjacent to a larger component in $G - S$. We enhance our understanding of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Rémy Belmonte , Tesshu Hanaka , Ioannis Katsikarelis , Michael Lampis , Hirotaka Ono , Yota Otachi

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

Simulating quantum many-body systems represents a fundamental challenge where classical machine learning methods are severely bottlenecked by the exponential curse of dimensionality. Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) offer a native…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Ge Yan , Kaisen Pan , Ruocheng Wang , Mengfei Ran , Hongxu Chen , Junchi Yan

We show that formulating the quantum time of arrival problem in a segment of the real line suggests rephrasing the quantum time of arrival problem to finding states that evolve to unitarily collapse at a given point at a definite time. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eric A. Galapon , Roland F. Caballar , Ricardo T. Bahague

Parameterized complexity theory was developed in the 1990s to enrich the complexity-theoretic analysis of problems that depend on a range of parameters. In this paper we establish a quantum equivalent of classical parameterized complexity…

We study 'Merlinized' versions of the recently defined Guided Local Hamiltonian problem, which we call 'Guidable Local Hamiltonian' problems. Unlike their guided counterparts, these problems do not have a guiding state provided as a part of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Jordi Weggemans , Marten Folkertsma , Chris Cade

The Local Hamiltonian problem (finding the ground state energy of a quantum system) is known to be QMA-complete. The Local Consistency problem (deciding whether descriptions of small pieces of a quantum system are consistent) is also known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-17 Yi-Kai Liu

The solutions of the time independent Schrodinger equation for non-Hermitian (NH) Hamiltonians have been extensively studied and calculated in many different fields of physics by using L^2 methods that originally have been developed for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ido Gilary , Avner Fleischer , Nimrod Moiseyev

We can obtain one solution of the Hamiltonian constraint equation in the local sense. The form of the state is suggested from the up-to-down method in our previous work. The up-to-down method works for different way in treating the general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Shintaro Sawayama

A common feature of reparametrization invariant theories is the difficulty involved in identifying an appropriate evolution parameter and in constructing a Hilbert space on states. Two well known examples of such theories are the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Fabian H. Gaioli , Edgardo T. Garcia Alvarez

This article presents an analysis of the extent to which local causal models or local realistic models of quantum theory (QT), including quantum field theory (QFT), are theoretically possible and practically feasible in light of the present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-15 Hans H. Diel

Predicting observables in equilibrium states is a central yet notoriously hard question in quantum many-body systems. In the physically relevant thermodynamic limit, certain mathematical formulations of this task have even been shown to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi , Samuel O. Scalet

We prove that there is no fpt-algorithm that can approximate the dominating set problem with any constant ratio, unless FPT= W[1]. Our hardness reduction is built on the second author's recent W[1]-hardness proof of the biclique problem.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Yijia Chen , Bingkai Lin

In Amin and Choi \cite{AC09}, we show that an adiabatic quantum algorithm for the NP-hard maximum independent set (MIS) problem on a set of special family of graphs in which there are exponentially many local maxima would have the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-04 Vicky Choi

The strong exponential-time hypothesis (SETH) is a commonly used conjecture in the field of complexity theory. It states that CNF formulas cannot be analyzed for satisfiability with a speedup over exhaustive search. This hypothesis and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-15 Harry Buhrman , Subhasree Patro , Florian Speelman

We initiate the study of parameterized complexity of $\textsf{QMA}$ problems in terms of the number of non-Clifford gates in the problem description. We show that for the problem of parameterized quantum circuit satisfiability, there exists…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Srinivasan Arunachalam , Sergey Bravyi , Chinmay Nirkhe , Bryan O'Gorman

Canonical formalism of the rank-three tensor model has recently been proposed, in which "local" time is consistently incorporated by a set of first class constraints. By brute-force analysis, this paper shows that there exist only two forms…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Naoki Sasakura

We explore in the framework of Quantum Computation the notion of {\em Computability}, which holds a central position in Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science. A quantum algorithm for Hilbert's tenth problem, which is equivalent to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tien D Kieu

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