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arxiv: quant-ph/0509162 · v3 · submitted 2005-09-22 · 🪐 quant-ph

Exponential complexity of an adiabatic algorithm for an NP-complete problem

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We prove an analytical expression for the size of the gap between the ground and the first excited state of quantum adiabatic algorithm for the 3-satisfiability, where the initial Hamiltonian is a projector on the subspace complementary to the ground state. For large problem sizes the gap decreases exponentially and as a consequence the required running time is also exponential.

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