QMA-hardness of continuum Coulomb energy

Formal proof listed 2 papers September 24, 2026
What the paper claims, in its own words

Proves QMA-hardness of approximating the electronic Coulomb energy infimum in three dimensions, minimizing over the full spinful fermionic continuum space. Deterministic polynomial-time reductions work even with only unit-charge nuclei at distinct rational positions, polynomially many electrons and an energy-threshold separation of at least one.

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