Published March 2010
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Journal article
Quantum-Merlin-Arthur-complete problems for stoquastic Hamiltonians and Markov matrices
- 1. Department of Physics, Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041, USA, and Institute for Quantum Information, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125 (United States)
- 2. Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 6-304, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (United States)
- 3. Institute for Quantum Information, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125 (United States)
Description
We show that finding the lowest eigenvalue of a 3-local symmetric stochastic matrix is Quantum-Merlin-Arthur-complete (QMA-complete). We also show that finding the highest energy of a stoquastic Hamiltonian is QMA-complete and that adiabatic quantum computation using certain excited states of a stoquastic Hamiltonian is universal. We also show that adiabatic evolution in the ground state of a stochastic frustration-free Hamiltonian is universal. Our results give a QMA-complete problem arising in the classical setting of Markov chains and adiabatically universal Hamiltonians that arise in many physical systems.
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.032331;
- arXiv
- arXiv:0905.4755v2;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. A
- Journal Volume
- 81
- Journal Issue
- 3
- Journal Page Range
- p. 032331-032331.10
- ISSN
- 1050-2947
- CODEN
- PLRAAN
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 42001563
- Subject category
- S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- EIGENVALUES; EVOLUTION; EXCITED STATES; GROUND STATES; HAMILTONIANS; MARKOV PROCESS; MATRICES; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; SYMMETRY
- Descriptors DEC
- COMPUTERS; ENERGY LEVELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; QUANTUM OPERATORS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES
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- Notes
- (c) 2010 The American Physical Society