Improved approximation algorithms for bounded-degree local Hamiltonians

@article{Anshu2021ImprovedAA,
  title={Improved approximation algorithms for bounded-degree local Hamiltonians},
  author={Anurag Anshu and David Gosset and Karen J. Morenz Korol and Mehdi Soleimanifar},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2021},
  volume={abs/2105.01193}
}
Anurag Anshu, David Gosset, Karen J. Morenz Korol, and Mehdi Soleimanifar 1 Department of EECS & Challenge Institute for Quantum Computation, University of California, Berkeley, USA and Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Berkeley, California, USA. 2 Department of Combinatorics and Optimization and Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Canada 3 Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada and 4 Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of… 
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