STACS 2004

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STACS 2004 (scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5196848)



Abstract: The oracle identification problem (OIP) is, given a set S of M Boolean oracles out of 2N ones, to determine which oracle in S is the current black-box oracle. We can exploit the information that candidates of the current oracle is restricted to S. The OIP contains several concrete problems such as the original Grover search and the Bernstein-Vazirani problem. Our interest is in the quantum query complexity, for which we present several upper and lower bounds. They are quite general and mostly optimal: (i) The query complexity of OIP is O(sqrtNlogMlogNloglogM) for {it any} S such that M=|S|>N, which is better than the obvious bound N if M<2N/log3N. (ii) It is O(sqrtN) for {it any} S if |S|=N, which includes the upper bound for the Grover search as a special case. (iii) For a wide range of oracles (|S|=N) such as random oracles and balanced oracles, the query complexity is Theta(sqrtN/K), where K is a simple parameter determined by S.












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