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View SchemaQuantum algorithm for a generalized hidden shift problem
| Authors | Andrew M. Childs, Wim van Dam |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0507190 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0507190 |
| DOI | 10.1145/1283383.1283515 |
| Journal | Proc. 18th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2007), pp. 1225-1234 |
Abstract
Consider the following generalized hidden shift problem: given a function f on {0,...,M-1} x Z_N satisfying f(b,x)=f(b+1,x+s) for b=0,1,...,M-2, find the unknown shift s in Z_N. For M=N, this problem is an instance of the abelian hidden subgroup problem, which can be solved efficiently on a quantum computer, whereas for M=2, it is equivalent to the dihedral hidden subgroup problem, for which no efficient algorithm is known. For any fixed positive epsilon, we give an efficient (i.e., poly(log N)) quantum algorithm for this problem provided M > N^epsilon. The algorithm is based on the "pretty good measurement" and uses H. Lenstra's (classical) algorithm for integer programming as a subroutine.
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