This is the most interesting class of problems for BQP as we haven't proven that they are neither:
  • P: would be boring on quantum computer
  • NP-complete: would likely be impossible on a quantum computer
Heck, we know nothing about this class yet related to non quantum classes!
  • conjectured not to intersect with NP-complete, because if it were, all NP-complete problems could be solved efficiently on quantum computers, and none has been found so far as of 2020.
  • conjectured to be larger than P, but we don't have a single algorithm provenly there:
    • it is believed that the NP complete ones can't be solved
    • if they were neither NP-complete nor P, it would imply P != NP
  • we just don't know if it is even contained inside NP!

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