Abstract

We study the complexity of QMA proof systems with inverse exponentially small promise gap. We show that this class can be exactly characterized by PSPACE, the class of problems solvable with a polynomial amount of memory. As applications we show that a "precise" version of the Local Hamiltonian problem is PSPACE-complete, and give a provable setting in which the ability to prepare PEPS states is not as powerful as the ability to prepare the ground state of general Local Hamiltonians.

Publication Details
Publication Type
Journal Article
Year of Publication
2016
URL
http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.01975
Journal
arXiv
Contributors
Groups
Date Published
01/2016