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View SchemaA note on the classical lower bound for a quantum walk algorithm
| Authors | Stephen A. Fenner, Yong Zhang |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0312230 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0312230 |
Abstract
A recent paper on quantum walks by Childs et al. [STOC'03] provides an example of a black-box problem for which there is a quantum algorithm with exponential speedup over the best classical randomized algorithm for the problem, but where the quantum algorithm does not involve any use of the quantum Fourier transform. They give an exponential lower bound for a classical randomized algorithm solving the black-box graph traversal problem defined in their paper. In this note we give an improved lower bound for this problem via a straightforward and more complete analysis.
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