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We define a new query measure we call quantum distinguishing complexity, denoted QD(f) for a Boolean function f. Unlike a quantum query algorithm, which must output a state close to |0> on a 0-input and a state close to |1> on a 1-input, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 Shalev Ben-David , Robin Kothari

We construct a total Boolean function $f$ satisfying $R(f)=\tilde{\Omega}(Q(f)^{5/2})$, refuting the long-standing conjecture that $R(f)=O(Q(f)^2)$ for all total Boolean functions. Assuming a conjecture of Aaronson and Ambainis about…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-06-29 Shalev Ben-David

We establish a lower bound of $\Omega{(\sqrt{n})}$ on the bounded-error quantum query complexity of read-once Boolean functions, providing evidence for the conjecture that $\Omega(\sqrt{D(f)})$ is a lower bound for all Boolean functions.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Howard Barnum , Michael Saks

We study nondeterministic quantum algorithms for Boolean functions f. Such algorithms have positive acceptance probability on input x iff f(x)=1. In the setting of query complexity, we show that the nondeterministic quantum complexity of a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ronald de Wolf

We study the composition question for bounded-error randomized query complexity: Is R(f o g) = Omega(R(f) R(g)) for all Boolean functions f and g? We show that inserting a simple Boolean function h, whose query complexity is only Theta(log…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Shalev Ben-David , Robin Kothari

It is well known that quantum, randomized and deterministic (sequential) query complexities are polynomially related for total boolean functions. We find that significantly larger separations between the parallel generalizations of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Joseph Carolan , Amin Shiraz Gilani , Mahathi Vempati

Probably the simplest and most frequently used way to illustrate the power of quantum computing is to solve the so-called {\it Deutsch's problem}. Consider a Boolean function $f: \{0,1\} \to \{0,1\}$ and suppose that we have a (classical)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cristian S. Calude

It is known since the work of [AA14] that for any permutation symmetric function $f$, the quantum query complexity is at most polynomially smaller than the classical randomized query complexity, more precisely that $R(f) =…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-04 André Chailloux

We examine the number T of queries that a quantum network requires to compute several Boolean functions on {0,1}^N in the black-box model. We show that, in the black-box model, the exponential quantum speed-up obtained for partial functions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Beals , Harry Buhrman , Richard Cleve , Michele Mosca , Ronald de Wolf

Our problem is to evaluate a multi-valued Boolean function $F$ through oracle calls. If $F$ is one-to-one and the size of its domain and range is the same, then our problem can be formulated as follows: Given an oracle $f(a,x):…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kazuo Iwama , Akinori Kawachi , Hiroyuki Masuda , Raymond H. Putra , Shigeru Yamashita

Derandomization is the process of taking a randomized algorithm and turning it into a deterministic algorithm, which has attracted great attention in classical computing. In quantum computing, it is challenging and intriguing to derandomize…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 Guanzhong Li , Lvzhou Li

Computational models typically assume that operations are applied in a fixed sequential order. In recent years several works have looked at relaxing this assumption, considering computations without any fixed causal structure and showing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Alastair A. Abbott , Mehdi Mhalla , Pierre Pocreau

We study the quantum query complexity of the Boolean hidden shift problem. Given oracle access to f(x+s) for a known Boolean function f, the task is to determine the n-bit string s. The quantum query complexity of this problem depends…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-28 Andrew M. Childs , Robin Kothari , Maris Ozols , Martin Roetteler

Quantum algorithms can be analyzed in a query model to compute Boolean functions where input is given in a black box and the aim is to compute function value for arbitrary input using as few queries as possible. We concentrate on quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-23 Alina Vasilieva

We study the $\textit{average-case deterministic query complexity}$ of boolean functions under a $\textit{uniform input distribution}$, denoted by $\mathrm{D}_\mathrm{ave}(f)$, the minimum average depth of zero-error decision trees that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Yuan Li , Haowei Wu , Yi Yang

In this paper, we study the query complexity of Boolean functions in the presence of uncertainty, motivated by parallel computation with an unlimited number of processors where inputs are allowed to be unknown. We allow each query to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Deepu Benson , Balagopal Komarath , Nikhil Mande , Sai Soumya Nalli , Jayalal Sarma , Karteek Sreenivasaiah

Non-linearity of a Boolean function indicates how far it is from any linear function. Despite there being several strong results about identifying a linear function and distinguishing one from a sufficiently non-linear function, we found a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Debajyoti Bera , Tharrmashastha Sapv

In Exact Quantum Query model, almost all of the Boolean functions for which non-trivial query algorithms exist are symmetric in nature. The most well known techniques in this domain exploit parity decision trees, in which the parity of two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Chandra Sekhar Mukherjee , Subhamoy Maitra

We initiate a systematic study of pseudo-deterministic quantum algorithms. These are quantum algorithms that, for any input, output a canonical solution with high probability. Focusing on the query complexity model, our main contributions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Hugo Aaronson , Tom Gur , Jiawei Li

We show that, for almost all N-variable Boolean functions f, at least N/4-O(\sqrt{N} log N) queries are required to compute f in quantum black-box model with bounded error.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andris Ambainis