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The Complexity of Local Stoquastic Hamiltonians on 2D Lattices
Gabriel Waite, Michael J. Bremner·February 20, 2025
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Abstract
We show the 2-Local Stoquastic Hamiltonian problem on a 2D square qubit lattice is StoqMA-complete. We achieve this by extending the spatially sparse circuit construction of Oliveira and Terhal, as well as the perturbative gadgets of Bravyi, DiVincenzo, Oliveira, and Terhal. Our main contributions demonstrate StoqMA circuits can be made spatially sparse and that geometrical, stoquastic-preserving, perturbative gadgets can be constructed, without an increase to particle dimension.