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TR08-067 | 4th June 2008 00:00

On Perfect Completeness for QMA

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TR08-067
Authors: Scott Aaronson
Publication: 21st July 2008 13:27
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Abstract:

Whether the class QMA (Quantum Merlin Arthur) is equal to QMA1, or QMA with one-sided error, has been an open problem for years. This note helps to explain why the problem is difficult, by using ideas from real analysis to give a "quantum oracle" relative to which QMA and QMA1 are different. As a byproduct, we find that there are facts about quantum complexity classes that are classically relativizing but not quantumly relativizing, among them such "trivial" containments as BQP in ZQEXP.



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