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Paper IDQ.4.5
Paper Title 2D Local Hamiltonian with Area Laws is QMA-Complete
Authors Yichen Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Session Q.4: Quantum Information Theory
Presentation Lecture
Track Quantum Systems, Codes, and Information
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Abstract We show that the 2D local Hamiltonian problem with the constraint that the ground state obeys area laws is QMA-complete. We also prove similar results in 2D translation-invariant systems and for the 3D Heisenberg and Hubbard models with local magnetic fields. Consequently, unless MA = QMA, not all ground states of 2D local Hamiltonians with area laws have efficient classical representations that support efficient computation of local expectation values. In the future, even if area laws are proved for ground states of 2D gapped systems, the computational complexity of these systems remains unclear.

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2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory

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