The Quantum Complexity of Markov Chain Monte Carlo

  • Authors:
  • Peter C. Richter

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, Université de Paris-Sud XI, Orsay, France 91405

  • Venue:
  • CiE '08 Proceedings of the 4th conference on Computability in Europe: Logic and Theory of Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is the widely-used classical method of random sampling from a probability distribution 驴by simulating a Markov chain which "mixes" to 驴at equilibrium. Despite the success quantum walks have been shown to have in speeding up random walk algorithms for search problems ("hitting") and simulated annealing, it remains to prove a general speedup theorem for MCMC sampling algorithms. We review the progress toward this end, in particular using decoherent quantum walks.