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Merlin-Arthur Games and Stoquastic Complexity

Arvid J. Bessen, Barbara M. Terhal, Sergey Bravyi

arxiv:quant-ph/0611021 v2 · 2006-11-02 · quant-ph · cs.CC

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4 papers in Pith

The Collapse of Unentangled Stoquastic Merlin-Arthur Proof Systems
The Guided Local Hamiltonian Problem for Stoquastic Hamiltonians
The power of unentanglement without destructive interference
The Complexity of Stoquastic Sparse Hamiltonians
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6a4ceaf3fcafa1674303c4583364bb4bea2a7ad2b24403ecf096fca22a697ff1

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arxiv: quant-ph/0611021 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0611021v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0611021 · pith_short_12: NJGOV474V6QW · pith_short_16: NJGOV474V6QWOQYD · pith_short_8: NJGOV474
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Verify this Pith Number yourself 
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NJGOV474V6QWOQYDYRMDGZF3JP \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 6a4ceaf3fcafa1674303c4583364bb4bea2a7ad2b24403ecf096fca22a697ff1
Canonical record JSON 
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    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-11-02T01:20:42Z",
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  },
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