The Power of Adiabatic Quantum Computation with No Sign Problem

Matthew B. Hastings

Station Q, Microsoft Research, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6105, USA
Microsoft Quantum and Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA 98052, USA

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Abstract

We show a superpolynomial oracle separation between the power of adiabatic quantum computation with no sign problem and the power of classical computation.

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