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divided into blocks that gain energy if and only if they represent a full computation by a Turing machine, and showing that this system becomes gapped if and only if the machine does not halt.
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the machine halts. The one-dimensional case was also proven undecidable in 2020 by constructing a chain of interacting
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In quantum many-body systems, ground states of gapped Hamiltonians have exponential decay of correlations.
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In 2015, it was shown that the problem of determining the existence of a spectral gap is
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of electrons in a solid material, in which case it is often known as an
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and showed that this hypothetical material becomes gapped
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Energy difference between ground and first excited states
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quantum mechanics
ground state
excited state
mass gap
vacuum
Hamiltonian
gapped Hamiltonian
solid-state physics
many-body system
energy gap
undecidable
aperiodic tiling
quantum Turing machines
if and only if
qudits
List of undecidable problems
Spectral gap
arXiv
1502.04135
Bibcode
2015Natur.528..207C
doi
10.1038/nature16059
PMID
26659181
S2CID
4451987
"Scientists Just Proved A Fundamental Quantum Physics Problem is Unsolvable"
arXiv
math-ph/0506030

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