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Quantum Computers Speed Up Classical with Probability Zero

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Let ff denote length preserving function on words. A classical algorithm can be considered as TT iterated applications of black box representing ff, beginning with input word xx of length nn. It is proved that if T=O(2n/(7+e)),e>0T=O(2^{n/(7+e)}), e >0, and ff is chosen randomly then with probability 1 every quantum computer requires not less than TT evaluations of ff to obtain the result of classical computation. It means that the set of classical algorithms admitting quantum speeding up has probability measure zero. The second result is that for arbitrary classical time complexity TT and ff chosen randomly with probability 1 every quantum simulation of classical computation requires at least Ω(T)\Omega (\sqrt {T}) evaluations of ff.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9803064,
  title  = {Quantum Computers Speed Up Classical with Probability Zero},
  author = {Yuri Ozhigov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9803064},
  year   = {2007}
}

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11 pages, LATEX