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Quantum Proofs for Classical Theorems

Quantum Physics 2011-03-15 v2 Computational Complexity

Abstract

Alongside the development of quantum algorithms and quantum complexity theory in recent years, quantum techniques have also proved instrumental in obtaining results in classical (non-quantum) areas. In this paper we survey these results and the quantum toolbox they use.

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@article{arxiv.0910.3376,
  title  = {Quantum Proofs for Classical Theorems},
  author = {Andrew Drucker and Ronald de Wolf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.3376},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

50 pages LaTeX. Updated based on journal version; the journal version is open-access and has nicer typesetting (http://theoryofcomputing.org/articles/gs002/)

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