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arXiv:quant-ph/9811080 · Information Processing Letters

A note on quantum black-box complexity of almost all Boolean functions

Andris Ambainis

Published Jul 1, 1999• 23 citations
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10.1016/s0020-0190(99)00079-4

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Quantum algorithms can be analyzed in a query model to compute Boolean functions. Function input is provided in a black box, and the aim is to compute the function value using as few queries to the black box as possible. The complexity of the algorithm is measured by the number of queries on the worst-case input. In this paper we consider computing AND Boolean function. First, we present a quantum algorithm for AND of two bits. Our algorithm uses one quantum query and correct result is obtained with a probability p=4/5, that improves previous results. The main result is generalization of our approach to design efficient quantum algorithms for computing composite function AND(f1,f2) where fi is a Boolean function. Finally, we demonstrate another kind of an algorithm for AND of two variables, that has a correct answer probability p=9/10, but cannot be extended to compute AND(f1,f2).
We examine the number T of queries that a quantum network requires to compute several Boolean functions on {0,1}^N in the black-box model. We show that, in the black-box model, the exponential quantum speed-up obtained for partial functions (i.e. problems involving a promise on the input) by Deutsch and Jozsa and by Simon cannot be obtained for any total function: if a quantum algorithm computes some total Boolean function f with bounded-error using T black-box queries then there is a classical deterministic algorithm that computes f exactly with O(T^6) queries. We also give asymptotically tight characterizations of T for all symmetric f in the exact, zero-error, and bounded-error settings. Finally, we give new precise bounds for AND, OR, and PARITY. Our results are a quantum extension of the so-called polynomial method, which has been successfully applied in classical complexity theory, and also a quantum extension of results by Nisan about a polynomial relationship between randomized and deterministic decision tree complexity.