Quantum computing without entanglement

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DOI10.1016/J.TCS.2004.03.041zbMATH Open1067.81009DBLPjournals/tcs/BihamBKM04arXivquant-ph/0306182OpenAlexW2032897227WikidataQ56428625 ScholiaQ56428625MaRDI QIDQ596121FDOQ596121

Gilles Brassard, Eli Biham, Dan Kenigsberg, Tal Mor

Publication date: 10 August 2004

Published in: Theoretical Computer Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is generally believed that entanglement is essential for quantum computing. We present here a few simple examples in which quantum computing without entanglement is better than anything classically achievable, in terms of the reliability of the outcome after a xed number of oracle calls. Using a separable (that is, unentangled) n-qubit state, we show that the Deutsch-Jozsa problem and the Simon problem can be solved more reliably by a quantum computer than by the best possible classical algorithm, even probabilistic. We conclude that: (a) entanglement is not essential for quantum computing; and (b) some advantage of quantum algorithms over classical algorithms persists even when the quantum state contains an arbitrarily small amount of information|that is, even when the state is arbitrarily close to being totally mixed.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0306182




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