Degree Balance as a Fine-Grained Complexity Boundary for Quantum SAT
The local Hamiltonian problem is the canonical $\mathsf{QMA}$-complete problem, and $O(2^n)$ time classical algorithms and $O(2^{n/2})$ time quantum algorithms are known to solve the problem in the worst case. It is not clear how to improve these brute force strategies for a broad class of the problem because ground st...