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Any AND-OR formula of size N can be evaluated in time N1/2+o(1) on a quantum computer

  • Andris Ambainis*
  • , Andrew M. Childs
  • , Ben W. Reichardt
  • , Robert Špalek
  • , Shengyu Zhang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Waterloo
  • California Institute of Technology
  • University of California at Berkeley

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Abstract

For any AND-OR formula of size N, there exists a bounded-error N 1/2+o(1)-time quantum algorithm, based on a discrete-time quantum walk, that evaluates this formula on a black-box input. Balanced, or "approximately balanced," formulas can be evaluated in O(√N) queries, which is optimal. It follows that the (2 - o(1))th power of the quantum query complexity is a lower bound on the formula size, almost solving in the positive an open problem posed by Laplante, Lee and Szegedy.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 48th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2007
Pages363-372
Number of pages10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Event48th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2007 - Providence, RI, United States
Duration: 20 Oct 200723 Oct 2007

Publication series

NameProceedings - Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS
ISSN (Print)0272-5428

Conference

Conference48th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2007
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityProvidence, RI
Period20/10/0723/10/07

OECD Field of Science

  • 1.2 Computer and Information Sciences

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