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Oracle Construction for Grover's Algorithm
The oracle is basically just an implementation of the predicate you want to search for a satisfying solution to.
For example, suppose you have a 3-sat problem:
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Entropy and computational complexity
Yes, but most of the work so far (except very recently, see below) has focused on turning irreversible computations into reversible ones, thereby hoping to avoid any entropy generation. (Note: there ...
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The utility of Renyi entropies?
Renyi entropy is analogous, in some sense, to $\ell_p$-norms, so let's first recall why those norms are useful.
Suppose we have a vector of numbers $a \in \mathbb{R}^n$. We want to have a single ...
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The utility of Renyi entropies?
Consider trying to make atomic guesses for an unknown random variable $X$ distributed over some finite set $A.$ In Shannon entropy, it is assumed that you can query bit by bit, i.e., if $A=\{1,\ldots,...
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Generating "infinite" randomness from a constant number of sources
This is a great question, Suresh!
Our randomness expansion result does not imply any complexity theoretic result. Here's one way to understand the result: we believe that quantum mechanics governs ...
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The utility of Renyi entropies?
Renyi entropy (of order 2) is useful in cryptography for analyzing the probability of collisions.
Recall that the Renyi entropy of order 2 of a random variable $X$ is given by
$$H_2(X) = - \log_2 \...
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Where can I find examples of error correcting codes of the following types?
If you just need any code $E : \{0,1\}^n \to \{0,1\}^m$ where $m=O(n)$ and where the distance is linear in $m$, then what you are looking for is called an "asymptotically good code". There are many ...
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Quantum annealing vs adiabatic quantum computation
Adiabatic quantum computing (AQC) is a computational model (as Peter said in the comments). Compare AQC with other models of computation such as:
circuit-based quantum computing (CBQC)
Adleman-...
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theorems for universal set of quantum gates for SU(d)
I'm not aware of any proof that the Clifford group + any non-Clifford element gives a universal set of quantum gates. The closest related result that I know is that the Clifford group + any non-...
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Quantum Money where not even the Bank can counterfeit
There are proposals for quantum money where it appears that not even the bank can produce two copies of a quantum money state with the same serial number. See
Farhi et al's paper Quantum Money from ...
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Is it possible to encrypt quantum states under reasonable assumptions?
One can encrypt an n-qubit state using a 2n-bit classical secret key. The idea is to use the key to select a random Pauli operator, and apply that operator to the secret as an encryption. (The inverse ...
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States and Probability distributions that the 5-qubits IBM computer can produce
I just ran the first state you suggest (i.e. the GHZ state with negative phase in the Hadamard basis). Basically what I did was to write a circuit which creates that state, apply one of 5 stabilizer ...
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Fast classical simulation of quantum algorithms
Your question was inspired by the recent quantum-inspired classical advance in recommendation algorithm. Note that it is not the firs time such a thing happens. In 2015, similar developments happened ...
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How does one determine if a mixed bipartite quantum state is entangled or not?
In http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0303055v1.pdf, it is shown that the weak membership problem for the set of separable states is NP-hard. As you can see in Definition 6.2 (page 18), this amounts to ...
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When is a non-unitary quantum system only theoretical?
Look at John Preskill's Lecture Notes; particularly Section 3.2.
As you noted, you can do a NAND gate by using a Toffoli gate and throwing away some of the output qubits. This results in decoherence, ...
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Why is it impossible to work with polylog length encoding schemes for quantum circuits?
Clearly you can work with abstract compressed representations of circuits. You can reason about them and manipulate them and turn them into concrete lists of gates. We do it all the time.
But in ...
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Simulating quantum measurements by unitaries
The basic idea here is that any operation that uses measurement can be replaced by an operation that instead CNOTs qubits onto ancillae.
Any circuit with an intermediate measurement can be converted ...
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How can I get $\sum_n e^{i a_n} |n\rangle$ from $\sum_n a_n |n\rangle$?
It's not unitary, so it's impossible because all quantum transformations have to be unitary.
Consider the states
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\frac{3}{5} |0\rangle + \frac{4}{5} |1\rangle \quad \mathrm{and} \quad \frac{3}{5} |...
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Is it possible to MAC a quantum state with a classical key under reasonable assumption?
Howard Barnum, Claude Crepeau, Daniel Gottesman, Adam Smith, Alain Tapp. "Authentication of Quantum Messages", FOCS 2002.
http://www.cse.psu.edu/~ads22/pubs/PS-CSAIL/BCGST02-focs-final.pdf
As with ...
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Travelling sales man with Quantum Computers
The set of problems that can be solved by an universal quantum computer in "polynomial time" (with at most 1/3 probability of error) is called BQP.
Travelling salesman problem is in complexity class ...
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Dimension of the Fourier transform for $S_5$
A quantum Fourier transform is a unitary operation, so the number of basis states of the input and output must be the same.
The number of basis states before the Fourier transform is 120, the number ...
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How well can an arbitrary (unknown) quantum state be imperfectly cloned?
This problem has been studied in great detail, not just for the case of imperfectly cloning 1 qubit to get 2 copies, but more general problems of how to get m copies of a state given n copies, etc. I ...
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When is a non-unitary quantum system only theoretical?
I complete here Peter’s answer with a characterization of physical maps as CPTP maps.
As you know, if the system is isolated, the only operations you can implement are the unitary operations. But, ...
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Is it proved that error rate of quantum computation is bounded by constant rather than a function dependent on time and environment by quantum theory
As far as I know, nobody has come up with a convincing physics reason that fault-tolerant quantum computing is fundamentally impossible. However, it is a formidable engineering task, which is why we ...
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Is there any connection between the diamond norm and the distance of the associated states?
Following up on the line of thinking presented by Alex Monras, there is actually a quite generic argument for this kind of bound that goes beyond diamond norm and applies to many other channel ...
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Question about discarding the second register in the standard approach of hidden subgroup algorithm
Discarding in this context can be carried out by performing a Partial Trace. The system you're interested in is that of the first register. If you want to know only its state, as opposed to the ...
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Is there any hidden subgroup of a symmetric group which can be efficiently determined?
From what I understand, it is partially because we don't have any techniques currently that take advantage of structure of the hidden subgroup itself. Weak Fourier sampling solves the problem whenever ...
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From CHSH inequality to CHSH game
I think your history is entirely right. Computer scientists are used to thinking about protocols as games, while physicists are not, and this is probably why these results weren't formulated as games ...
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The utility of Renyi entropies?
This other stackexchange answer and this blog post might be very helpful to get a quick feel of a basic example,
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/73424/deriving-entanglement-entropy-from-...
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Noisy channel coding theorem in quantum information
You have two questions here.
Why can't Shannon's Noisy Coding Theorem be used for a quantum channel?
What gaps are there to proving a quantum noisy channel coding theorem?
I will concentrate on the ...
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