Class Description

QAM: Quantum AM

The class of decision problems for which a "yes" answer can be verified by a public-coin quantum AM protocol, as follows. Arthur generates a uniformly random (classical) string and sends it to Merlin. Merlin responds with a polynomial-size quantum certificate, on which Arthur can perform any BQP operation. The completeness and soundness requirements are the same as for AM.

Defined by Marriott and Watrous [MW05].

Contains QMA and is contained in QIP[2] and BP•PP (and therefore PSPACE).

Linked From 1 Classes

qq-QAM: quantum-quantum QAM

Same as QAM except Arthur sends Merlin polynomially many halves of EPR-pairs instead of random coinflips.

Trivially contains QMA and NIQSZK, and is contained in QIP[2].

Defined in [KGN19], where it was shown that estimating the maximum entropy and minimum trace distance to the maximally mixed state among all states in the image of a quantum channel are complete problems.

In [GK25] it was shown that determining if a local Hamiltonian has a low energy state with high entanglement entropy is complete for qq-QAM. It was also shown that additive approximation to the free energy (equivalently multiplicative approximation to the quantum partition function) can be computed in qq-QAM.

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