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Improved algorithms for quantum identification of boolean oracles

  • Andris Ambainis*
  • , Kazuo Iwama
  • , Akinori Kawachi
  • , Rudy Raymond
  • , Shigeru Yamashita
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Waterloo
  • Kyoto University
  • Institute of Science Tokyo
  • IBM
  • Nara Institute of Science and Technology

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Abstract

The oracle identification problem (OIP) was introduced by Ambainis et al. [3]. It is given as a set S of M oracles and a blackbox oracle f. Our task is to figure out which oracle in S is equal to the black-box f by making queries to f. OIP includes several problems such as the Grover Search as special cases. In this paper, we improve the algorithms in [3] by providing a mostly optimal upper bound of query complexity for this problem: (i) For any oracle set S such that |S| ≤ 2Nd (d < 1), we design an algorithm whose query complexity is O(√N log M/log N), matching the lower bound proved in [3]. (ii) Our algorithm also works for the range between 2Nd and 2 N/logN (where the bound becomes O(N)), but the gap between the upper and lower bounds worsens gradually. (iii) Our algorithm is robust, namely, it exhibits the same performance (up to a constant factor) against the noisy oracles as also shown in the literatures [2, 11, 18] for special cases of OIP.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBiomedical Simulation - Third International Symposium, ISBMS 2006, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages280-291
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)354035753X, 9783540357537
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
Event10th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory, SWAT 2006 - Riga, Latvia
Duration: 6 Jul 20068 Jul 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4059 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference10th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory, SWAT 2006
Country/TerritoryLatvia
CityRiga
Period6/07/068/07/06

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