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Hypothesis elimination on a quantum computer

Quantum Physics 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

Hypothesis elimination is a special case of Bayesian updating, where each piece of new data rules out a set of prior hypotheses. We describe how to use Grover's algorithm to perform hypothesis elimination for a class of probability distributions encoded on a register of qubits, and establish a lower bound on the required computational resources.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0412025,
  title  = {Hypothesis elimination on a quantum computer},
  author = {Andrei N. Soklakov and Ruediger Schack},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0412025},
  year   = {2009}
}

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8 pages