Quantum Search on Bounded-Error Inputs

Details Quantum Search on Bounded-Error Inputs Quantum Search on Bounded-Error Inputs

2003-04-07

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0304052v2

Physics

Quantum Physics

9 pages Latex. To appear in Proceedings of ICALP 03. 2nd version: corrected affiliation of 2nd author (no other changes)

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Suppose we have n algorithms, quantum or classical, each computing some bit-value with bounded error probability. We describe a quantum algorithm that uses O(sqrt{n}) repetitions of the base algorithms and with high probability finds the index of a 1-bit among these n bits (if there is such an index). This shows that it is not necessary to first significantly reduce the error probability in the base algorithms to O(1/poly(n)) (which would require O(sqrt{n}log n) repetitions in total). Our technique is a recursive interleaving of amplitude amplification and error-reduction, and may be of more general interest. Essentially, it shows that quantum amplitude amplification can be made to work also with a bounded-error verifier. As a corollary we obtain optimal quantum upper bounds of O(sqrt{N}) queries for all constant-depth AND-OR trees on N variables, improving upon earlier upper bounds of O(sqrt{N}polylog(N)).

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