Fast amplification of QMA

  • Authors:
  • Daniel Nagaj;Pawel Wocjan;Yong Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • RCQI, Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia and Quniverse, Bratislava, Slovakia;School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL;School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

  • Venue:
  • Quantum Information & Computation
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Given a verifier circuit for a problem in QMA, we show how to exponentially amplifythe gap between its acceptance probabilities in the 'yes' and 'no' cases, with a methodthat is quadratically faster than the procedure given by Marriott and Watrous [1]. Ourconstruction is natively quantum, based on the analogy of a product of two reflections anda quantum walk. Second, in some special cases we show how to amplify the acceptanceprobability for good witnesses to 1, making a step towards the proof that QMA withone-sided error (QMA1) is equal to QMA. Finally, we simplify the filter-state method tosearch for QMA witnesses by Poulin and Wocjan [2].