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We design two variational algorithms to optimize specific 2-local Hamiltonians defined on graphs. Our algorithms are inspired by the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm. We develop formulae to analyze the energy achieved by these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-20 Kunal Marwaha , Adrian She , James Sud

We study the computational complexity of quantum state isomorphism problems under group actions: given two quantum circuits that prepare pure or mixed states, decide whether the two states are related by a group action. This can be seen as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Alexandru Gheorghiu , Dale Jacobs , Saeed Mehraban , Arsalan Motamedi

The recent resolution of the NLTS Conjecture [ABN22] establishes a prerequisite to the Quantum PCP (QPCP) Conjecture through a novel use of newly-constructed QLDPC codes [LZ22]. Even with NLTS now solved, there remain many independent and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Nolan J. Coble , Matthew Coudron , Jon Nelson , Seyed Sajjad Nezhadi

In this work, we make a connection between two seemingly different problems. The first problem involves characterizing the properties of entanglement in the ground state of gapped local Hamiltonians, which is a central topic in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Anurag Anshu , Aram W. Harrow , Mehdi Soleimanifar

We consider the problem of estimating the maximal energy of quantum $p$-local spin glass random Hamiltonians, the quantum analogues of widely studied classical spin glass models. Denoting by $E^*(p)$ the (appropriately normalized) maximal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-08 Eric R. Anschuetz , David Gamarnik , Bobak T. Kiani

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

A fundamental problem in quantum many-body physics is that of finding ground states of local Hamiltonians. A number of recent works gave provably efficient machine learning (ML) algorithms for learning ground states. Specifically, [Huang et…

We consider the problem of characterizing states of a multipartite quantum system from restricted, quasi-local information, with emphasis on uniquely determined pure states. By leveraging tools from dissipative quantum control theory, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Salini Karuvade , Peter D. Johnson , Francesco Ticozzi , Lorenza Viola

Classical hardness-of-sampling results are largely established for random quantum circuits, whereas analog simulators natively realize time evolutions under geometrically local Hamiltonians. Does a typical such Hamiltonian already yield…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Yihui Quek

We show the 2-Local Stoquastic Hamiltonian problem on a 2D square qubit lattice is StoqMA-complete. We achieve this by extending the spatially sparse circuit construction of Oliveira and Terhal, as well as the perturbative gadgets of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Gabriel Waite , Michael J. Bremner

Combinatorial optimization is of general interest for both theoretical study and real-world applications. Fast-developing quantum algorithms provide a different perspective on solving combinatorial optimization problems. In this paper, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Tianyi Hao , Xuxin Huang , Chunjing Jia , Cheng Peng

Decoherence errors arising from noisy environments remain a central obstacle to progress in quantum computation and information processing. Quantum error correction (QEC) based on the Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) protocol offers a…

Quantum optimization algorithms hold the promise of solving classically hard, discrete optimization problems in practice. The requirement of encoding such problems in a Hamiltonian realized with a finite -- and currently small -- number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-10 Yifeng Rocky Zhu , David Joseph , Cong Ling , Florian Mintert

In this paper the local iterative Lie-Schwinger block-diagonalization method, introduced in [FP], [DFPR1], and [DFPR2] for quantum chains, is extended to higher-dimensional quantum lattice systems with Hamiltonians that can be written as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-08-15 Simone Del Vecchio , Juerg Froehlich , Alessandro Pizzo , Stefano Rossi

We show that any short-range Hamiltonian with a gap between the ground and excited states can be written as a sum of local operators, such that the ground state is an approximate eigenvector of each operator separately. We then show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-24 M. B. Hastings

We connect the study of pseudodeterministic algorithms to two major open problems about the structural complexity of $\mathsf{BPTIME}$: proving hierarchy theorems and showing the existence of complete problems. Our main contributions can be…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Zhenjian Lu , Igor C. Oliveira , Rahul Santhanam

Long-range entanglement is an important quantum resource, particularly for topological orders and quantum error correction. In reality, preparing long-range entangled states requires a deep unitary circuit, which poses significant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Yuxuan Yan , Muzhou Ma , You Zhou , Xiongfeng Ma

We introduce a family of Hamiltonian systems for measurement-based quantum computation with continuous variables. The Hamiltonians (i) are quadratic, and therefore two body, (ii) are of short range, (iii) are frustration-free, and (iv)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-01 Leandro Aolita , Augusto J. Roncaglia , Alessandro Ferraro , Antonio Acín

The relative entropy between two states is a key concept in quantum information theory and quantum field theory. In the setting of quantum field theory, its computation requires the handling of relative modular Hamiltonians, which are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Adriano Chialastri , Christoph Minz , Ko Sanders

A central result in the study of Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity is that the k-Local hamiltonian problem is QMA-complete. In that problem, we must decide if the lowest eigenvalue of a Hamiltonian is bounded below some value, or above…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 Naïri Usher , Matty J. Hoban , Dan E. Browne