@InProceedings{gharibian_et_al:LIPIcs.TQC.2017.2, author = {Gharibian, Sevag and Yirka, Justin}, title = {{The Complexity of Simulating Local Measurements on Quantum Systems}}, booktitle = {12th Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC 2017)}, pages = {2:1--2:17}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-034-7}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2018}, volume = {73}, editor = {Wilde, Mark M.}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.TQC.2017.2}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-85776}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.TQC.2017.2}, annote = {Keywords: Complexity theory, Quantum Merlin Arthur (QMA), local Hamiltonian, local measurement, spectral gap} }