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Stoquastic ground states are classical thermal distributions

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arxiv 2011.08572 v2 pith:UQAQRW5B submitted 2020-11-17 quant-ph

Stoquastic ground states are classical thermal distributions

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We study the structure of the ground states of local stoquastic Hamiltonians and show that under mild assumptions the following distributions can efficiently approximate one another: (a) distributions arising from ground states of stoquastic Hamiltonians, (b) distributions arising from ground states of stoquastic frustration-free Hamiltonians, (c) Gibbs distributions of local classical Hamiltonian, and (d) distributions represented by real-valued Deep Boltzmann machines. In addition, we highlight regimes where it is possible to efficiently classically sample from the above distributions.

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