Title
QCMA hardness of ground space connectivity for commuting Hamiltonians.
Abstract
In this work We consider the ground space connectivity problem for commuting local Hamiltonians. The ground space connectivity problem asks whether it is possible to go from one (efficiently preparable) state to another by applying a polynomial length sequence of 2-qubit unitaries while remaining at all times in a state with low energy for a given Hamiltonian H. It was shown in [GS15] that this problem is QCMA-complete for general local Haniiltorlians, where QCMA is defined as QMA with a classical witness and BQP verifier. Here we show that the commuting version of the problem is also QCMA-complete. This provides one of the first examples where commuting local Hamiltonians exhibit complexity theoretic hardness equivalent to general local Hamiltonians.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.22331/q-2017-07-14-16
QUANTUM
Field
DocType
Volume
Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Polynomial,Hamiltonian (quantum mechanics),Low energy,Mathematics,BQP
Journal
1
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2521-327X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David Gosset1396.76
Jenish C. Mehta211.04
Thomas Vidick337731.69