Two-local qubit Hamiltonians: when are they stoquastic?
Quantum Physics
2019-05-08 v3
Abstract
We examine the problem of determining if a 2-local Hamiltonian is stoquastic by local basis changes. We analyze this problem for two-qubit Hamiltonians, presenting some basic tools and giving a concrete example where using unitaries beyond Clifford rotations is required in order to decide stoquasticity. We report on simple results for -qubit Hamiltonians with identical 2-local terms on bipartite graphs. Our most significant result is that we give an efficient algorithm to determine whether an arbitrary -qubit XYZ Heisenberg Hamiltonian is stoquastic by local basis changes.
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@article{arxiv.1806.05405,
title = {Two-local qubit Hamiltonians: when are they stoquastic?},
author = {Joel Klassen and Barbara M. Terhal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.05405},
year = {2019}
}
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24 pages