Computational Complexity for Physicists

  • Authors:
  • Stephan Mertens

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Computing in Science and Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The branch of theoretical computer science known as computational complexity is concerned with classifying problems according to the computational resources required to solve them. This theory has some interesting links to physics, in particular to quantum computing and statistical mechanics. This article contains an informal introduction to this theory and its links to physics.