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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2015.537
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-50635
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Lin, Cedric Yen-Yu ; Lin, Han-Hsuan

Upper Bounds on Quantum Query Complexity Inspired by the Elitzur-Vaidman Bomb Tester

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Abstract

Inspired by the Elitzur-Vaidman bomb testing problem [Elitzur/Vaidman 1993], we introduce a new query complexity model, which we call bomb query complexity B(f). We investigate its relationship with the usual quantum query complexity Q(f), and show that B(f)=Theta(Q(f)^2).

This result gives a new method to upper bound the quantum query complexity: we give a method of finding bomb query algorithms from classical algorithms, which then provide nonconstructive upper bounds on Q(f)=Theta(sqrt(B(f))). We subsequently were able to give explicit quantum algorithms matching our upper bound method. We apply this method on the single-source shortest paths problem on unweighted graphs, obtaining an algorithm with O(n^(1.5)) quantum query complexity, improving the best known algorithm of O(n^(1.5) * sqrt(log(n))) [Furrow, 2008]. Applying this method to the maximum bipartite matching problem gives an O(n^(1.75)) algorithm, improving the best known trivial O(n^2) upper bound.

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@InProceedings{lin_et_al:LIPIcs:2015:5063,
  author =	{Cedric Yen-Yu Lin and Han-Hsuan Lin},
  title =	{{Upper Bounds on Quantum Query Complexity Inspired by the Elitzur-Vaidman Bomb Tester}},
  booktitle =	{30th Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC 2015)},
  pages =	{537--566},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-81-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{33},
  editor =	{David Zuckerman},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2015/5063},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-50635},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2015.537},
  annote =	{Keywords: Quantum Algorithms, Query Complexity, Elitzur-Vaidman Bomb Tester, Adversary Method, Maximum Bipartite Matching}
}

Keywords: Quantum Algorithms, Query Complexity, Elitzur-Vaidman Bomb Tester, Adversary Method, Maximum Bipartite Matching
Collection: 30th Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC 2015)
Issue Date: 2015
Date of publication: 06.06.2015

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