Jul 2026
Circuit complexity lower bounds for quantum spin glasses
It is shown that the entanglement needed to close the product-state gap cannot be generated at shallow depth, and a fixed-depth obstruction is proved: for every fixed $D$, a sufficiently large degree prefactor rules out depth-$D$ preparation of near-ground states.
Omar Al-Ghattas, David Gamarnik
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