QMA-complete problems for stoquastic Hamiltonians and Markov matrices

TitleQMA-complete problems for stoquastic Hamiltonians and Markov matrices
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2010
AuthorsJordan, SP, Gosset, D, Love, PJ
JournalPhysical Review A
Volume81
Issue3
Date Published2010/3/29
Abstract

We show that finding the lowest eigenvalue of a 3-local symmetric stochastic
matrix is 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 new QMA-complete problem
arising in the classical setting of Markov chains, and new adiabatically
universal Hamiltonians that arise in many physical systems.

URLhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0905.4755v2
DOI10.1103/PhysRevA.81.032331
Short TitlePhys. Rev. A