stoquastic
English
Etymology
Blend of stochastic + quantum
Pronunciation
Adjective
stoquastic (not comparable)
- Having elements of quantum mechanics and classical theory of stochastic matrices. For non-technical purposes ‘stoquastic’ is equivalent to “avoiding the sign problem”.[1]
- 2015, Ian Kivlichan, “On the complexity of stoquastic Hamiltonians,” publication not named (termpaper?), 11 December 2015
- Stoquastic Hamiltonians, those for which all off-diagonal matrix elements in the standard basis are real and non-positive, are common in the physical world.
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- 2016, R. Barends et al., “Digitized adiabatic quantum computing with a superconducting circuit,” Nature, 534, 222–226, 9 June 2016
- As stoquastic problems we use frustrated Ising Hamiltonians, having random local X and Z fields, and random σzσz couplings.
- 2015, Ian Kivlichan, “On the complexity of stoquastic Hamiltonians,” publication not named (termpaper?), 11 December 2015
Derived terms
References
- ^ Sergey Bravyi: “Monte Carlo Simulation Of Stoquastic Hamiltonians.” Quantum Information & Computation, volume 15, issue 13&14, October 2015, pp. 1122–1140. Page 1123.