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		whatshisface on Oct 10, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Quantum Advantage for NP Approximation That's for the strong force. The challenge with quantum chemistry is the 2^N state space for N particles.

evanb on Oct 10, 2024 [–]

The reason those lattice field theory computations are done that way is that they provide stochastic but polynomial-time algorithms for exactly the same kind of exponentially-large state space that appears in quantum chemistry.

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