Quantum Optimization Problems

  • Authors:
  • Tomoyuki Yamakami

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • UMC '02 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Unconventional Models of Computation
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Krentel [J. Comput. System. Sci., 36, pp.490-509] presented a framework for combinatorial NP optimization problems that search optimal values of polynomial-size solutions computed deterministically in polynomial time. This paper applies his framework to a quantum expansion of such optimization problems. With the notion of an "universal" quantum function similar to a classical "complete" function, we exhibit canonical quantum optimization problems whose optimal cost functions are universal for certain classes of quantum optimization problems. We also study the complexity of quantum optimization problems in connection to well-known complexity classes.