Interacting boson problems can Be QMA hard

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Wei, Tzu Chieh ^a,b   Mosca, Michele ^a,c   Nayak, Ashwin ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY CLASS; GROUND-STATE ENERGIES; INTERACTING BOSONS; INTERACTING ELECTRONS; N-REPRESENTABILITY PROBLEM; QUANTUM ALGORITHMS; SIGN PROBLEM;

BOSONS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 75749145090     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.040501     Document Type: Article

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