The quantum complexity of set membership

  • Authors:
  • J. Radhakrishnan;P. Sen;S. Venkatesh

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • FOCS '00 Proceedings of the 41st Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Studies the quantum complexity of the static set membership problem: given a subset S (|S|/spl les/n) of a universe of size m(/spl Gt/n), store it as a table, T:(0,1)/sup r//spl rarr/(0,1), of bits so that queries of the form 'is x in S?' can be answered. The goal is to use a small table and yet answer queries using a few bit probes. This problem was considered by H. Buhrman et al. (2000), who showed lower and upper bounds for this problem in the classical deterministic and randomised models. In this paper, we formulate this problem in the "quantum bit-probe model". We assume that access to the table T is provided by means of a black-box (oracle) unitary transform O/sub T/ that takes the basis state (y,b) to the basis state |y,b/spl oplus/T(y)