NP in BQP with Nonlinearity

Details NP in BQP with Nonlinearity NP in BQP with Nonlinearity

1998-04-09

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9804025v3

Physics

Quantum Physics

8 pages, no figures, several bugs fixed, added GR nonlinearity mechanism

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If one modifies the laws of Quantum Mechanics to allow nonlinear evolution of quantum states, this paper shows that NP-complete problems would be efficiently solvable in polynomial time with bounded probability (NP in BQP). With that (admittedly very unlikely) assumption, this is demonstrated by describing a polynomially large network of quantum gates that solves the 3SAT problem with bounded probability in polynomial time. As in a previous paper by Abrams and Lloyd (but by a somewhat simpler argument), allowing nonlinearity in the laws of Quantum Mechanics would prove the "weak Church-Turing thesis" to be false. General Relativity is suggested as a possible mechanism to supply the necessary nonlinearity.

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