Oracles with Costs

TitleOracles with Costs
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2015
AuthorsKimmel, S, Lin, CYen-Yu, Lin, H-H
Journal10th Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC 2015)
Volume44
Pages1-26
Date Published2015/02/07
ISSN1868-8969
ISBN Number978-3-939897-96-5
Abstract

While powerful tools have been developed to analyze quantum query complexity,
there are still many natural problems that do not fit neatly into the black box
model of oracles. We create a new model that allows multiple oracles with
differing costs. This model captures more of the difficulty of certain natural
problems. We test this model on a simple problem, Search with Two Oracles, for
which we create a quantum algorithm that we prove is asymptotically optimal. We
further give some evidence, using a geometric picture of Grover's algorithm,
that our algorithm is exactly optimal.

URLhttp://arxiv.org/abs/1502.02174
DOI10.4230/LIPIcs.TQC.2015.1