NLTS Hamiltonians from good quantum codes

Publication information:

Anurag Anshu, Nikolas P. Breuckmann, and Chinmay Nirkhe. 2022. “NLTS Hamiltonians from Good Quantum Codes”

Abstract

The NLTS (No Low-Energy Trivial State) conjecture of Freedman and Hastings [2014] posits that there exist families of Hamiltonians with all low energy states of non-trivial complexity (with complexity measured by the quantum circuit depth preparing the state). We prove this conjecture by showing that the recently discovered families of constant-rate and linear-distance QLDPC codes correspond to NLTS local Hamiltonians.

Notes

  • Quanta magazine article on the paper.
  • QIP 2023 (plenary talk)