Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2001-04-19
Physics
Quantum Physics
32 pages. A preliminary version appeared at ICALP 2001. This version is substantially revised and expanded. It has new and str
Scientific paper
We introduce a new model for studying quantum data structure problems -- the "quantum cell probe model". We prove a lower bound for the static predecessor problem in the address-only version of this model where we allow quantum parallelism only over the `address lines' of the queries. The address-only quantum cell probe model subsumes the classical cell probe model, and many quantum query algorithms like Grover's algorithm fall into this framework. Our lower bound improves the previous known lower bound for the predecessor problem in the classical cell probe model with randomised query schemes, and matches the classical deterministic upper bound of Beame and Fich. Beame and Fich have also proved a matching lower bound for the predecessor problem, but only in the classical deterministic setting. Our lower bound has the advantage that it holds for the more general quantum model, and also, its proof is substantially simpler than that of Beame and Fich. We prove our lower bound by obtaining a round elimination lemma for quantum communication complexity. A similar lemma was proved by Miltersen, Nisan, Safra and Wigderson for classical communication complexity, but it was not strong enough to prove a lower bound matching the upper bound of Beame and Fich. Our quantum round elimination lemma also allows us to prove rounds versus communication tradeoffs for some quantum communication complexity problems like the "greater-than" problem. We also study the "static membership" problem in the quantum cell probe model. Generalising a result of Yao, we show that if the storage scheme is implicit, that is it can only store members of the subset and `pointers', then any quantum query scheme must make $\Omega(\log n)$ probes.
Sen Pranab
Venkatesh Suresh
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