New developments in quantum algorithms

  • Authors:
  • Andris Ambainis

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Computing, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

  • Venue:
  • MFCS'10 Proceedings of the 35th international conference on Mathematical foundations of computer science
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this talk, we describe two recent developments in quantum algorithms. The first new development is a quantum algorithm for evaluating a Boolean formula consisting of AND and OR gates of size N in time O(√N). This provides quantum speedups for any problem that can be expressed via Boolean formulas. This result can be also extended to span problems, a generalization of Boolean formulas. This provides an optimal quantum algorithm for any Boolean function in the black-box query model. The second new development is a quantum algorithm for solving systems of linear equations. In contrast with traditional algorithms that run in time O(N2.37...) where N is the size of the system, the quantum algorithm runs in time O(logc N). It outputs a quantum state describing the solution of the system.