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Approximating Unitary Preparations of Orthogonal Black Box States

Computational Complexity 2019-06-26 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

In this paper, I take a step toward answering the following question: for m different small circuits that compute m orthogonal n qubit states, is there a small circuit that will map m computational basis states to these m states without any input leaving any auxiliary bits changed. While this may seem simple, the constraint that auxiliary bits always be returned to 0 on any input (even ones besides the m we care about) led me to use sophisticated techniques. I give an approximation of such a unitary in the m = 2 case that has size polynomial in the approximation error, and the number of qubits n.

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@article{arxiv.1906.10495,
  title  = {Approximating Unitary Preparations of Orthogonal Black Box States},
  author = {Joshua Alan Cook},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.10495},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

A Class project Paper for CS395T Quantum Complexity Theory at UT Austin in Spring 2019 under Scott Aaronson