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View SchemaUniversality of Entanglement and Quantum Computation Complexity
| Authors | Roman Orus, Jose I. Latorre |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0311017 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0311017 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.69.052308 |
| Journal | Phys.Rev. A69 (2004) 052308 |
Abstract
We study the universality of scaling of entanglement in Shor's factoring algorithm and in adiabatic quantum algorithms across a quantum phase transition for both the NP-complete Exact Cover problem as well as the Grover's problem. The analytic result for Shor's algorithm shows a linear scaling of the entropy in terms of the number of qubits, therefore difficulting the possibility of an efficient classical simulation protocol. A similar result is obtained numerically for the quantum adiabatic evolution Exact Cover algorithm, which also shows universality of the quantum phase transition the system evolves nearby. On the other hand, entanglement in Grover's adiabatic algorithm remains a bounded quantity even at the critical point. A classification of scaling of entanglement appears as a natural grading of the computational complexity of simulating quantum phase transitions.
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