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A new quantum lower bound method, with an application to strong direct product theorem for quantum search

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v2 Computational Complexity

Abstract

We present a new method for proving lower bounds on quantum query algorithms. The new method is an extension of adversary method, by analyzing the eigenspace structure of the problem. Using the new method, we prove a strong direct product theorem for quantum search. This result was previously proven by Klauck, Spalek and de Wolf (quant-ph/0402123) using polynomials method. No proof using adversary method was known before.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0508200,
  title  = {A new quantum lower bound method, with an application to strong direct product theorem for quantum search},
  author = {Andris Ambainis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0508200},
  year   = {2007}
}

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