The Local Consistency Problem for Stoquastic and 1-D Quantum Systems

dc.creatorLiu, Yi-Kai
dc.date2007-12-10
dc.date2007-12-17
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T08:49:13Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T08:49:13Z
dc.descriptionThe 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 to be QMA-complete. Here we consider special cases of Local Hamiltonian, for ``stoquastic'' and 1-dimensional systems, that seem to be strictly easier than QMA. We show that there exist analogous special cases of Local Consistency, that have equivalent complexity (up to poly-time oracle reductions). Our main technical tool is a new reduction from Local Consistency to Local Hamiltonian, using SDP duality.
dc.description18 pages, submitted to IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC). v2: slightly revised introduction
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0712.1388
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0712.1388
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/144217
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.titleThe Local Consistency Problem for Stoquastic and 1-D Quantum Systems
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