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Computational solution to quantum foundational problems — mentioned by csl

Sun, 24 Jul 2016 19:02:33 GMT

I feel that this is so important that I'll just quote the central part of Aaronson's response: OK everyone: At several people’s request, I’ve now taken a look at arXiv:1403.7686, and I can confirm that it’s complete garbage. Aaronson explains why, too.

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Computational solution to quantum foundational problems — mentioned by JamesArgo

Sat, 24 Jan 2015 16:41:07 GMT

For anyone interested, here's Scott Aaronson's response to the paper: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1767#comment-103591 OK everyone: At several people’s request, I’ve now taken a look at arXiv:1403.7686, and I can confirm that it’s complete garbage. The author is simply mistaken that solving the Schrödinger equation is “NP-complete” in any interesting sense: his argument for that seems to rely on a rediscovery of the adiabatic algorithm, but he doesn’t mention that the spectral gap could be exponentially small (and hence the annealing time could be exponentially large)—the central…

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Computational solution to quantum foundational problems — HN submission

Sat, 05 Apr 2014 20:11:43 GMT

Computational solution to quantum foundational problems

30 points; 19 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.