On the hardness of learning ground state entanglement of geometrically local Hamiltonians
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| author | Bouland, Adam Zhang, Chenyi Zhou, Zixin |
| author_facet | Bouland, Adam Zhang, Chenyi Zhou, Zixin |
| contents | Characterizing the entanglement structure of ground states of local Hamiltonians is a fundamental problem in quantum information. In this work we study the computational complexity of this problem, given the Hamiltonian as input. Our main result is that to show it is cryptographically hard to determine if the ground state of a geometrically local, polynomially gapped Hamiltonian on qudits ($d=O(1)$) has near-area law vs near-volume law entanglement. This improves prior work of Bouland et al. (arXiv:2311.12017) showing this for non-geometrically local Hamiltonians. In particular we show this problem is roughly factoring-hard in 1D, and LWE-hard in 2D. Our proof works by constructing a novel form of public-key pseudo-entanglement which is highly space-efficient, and combining this with a modification of Gottesman and Irani's quantum Turing machine to Hamiltonian construction. Our work suggests that the problem of learning so-called "gapless" quantum phases of matter might be intractable. |
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| spellingShingle | On the hardness of learning ground state entanglement of geometrically local Hamiltonians Bouland, Adam Zhang, Chenyi Zhou, Zixin Quantum Physics Other Condensed Matter Computational Complexity Characterizing the entanglement structure of ground states of local Hamiltonians is a fundamental problem in quantum information. In this work we study the computational complexity of this problem, given the Hamiltonian as input. Our main result is that to show it is cryptographically hard to determine if the ground state of a geometrically local, polynomially gapped Hamiltonian on qudits ($d=O(1)$) has near-area law vs near-volume law entanglement. This improves prior work of Bouland et al. (arXiv:2311.12017) showing this for non-geometrically local Hamiltonians. In particular we show this problem is roughly factoring-hard in 1D, and LWE-hard in 2D. Our proof works by constructing a novel form of public-key pseudo-entanglement which is highly space-efficient, and combining this with a modification of Gottesman and Irani's quantum Turing machine to Hamiltonian construction. Our work suggests that the problem of learning so-called "gapless" quantum phases of matter might be intractable. |
| title | On the hardness of learning ground state entanglement of geometrically local Hamiltonians |
| topic | Quantum Physics Other Condensed Matter Computational Complexity |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04353 |