Quantum Computing Without Entanglement

dc.creatorBiham, Eli
dc.creatorBrassard, Gilles
dc.creatorKenigsberg, Dan
dc.creatorMor, Tal
dc.date2003-06-26
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dc.descriptionIt 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.
dc.description18 pages. Presented at FoCM'02 (Aug 2002, see http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~danken/pub/QCnoEnt.pdf), QIP'03 (Dec 2002, see http://www.msri.org/publications/ln/msri/2002/qip/brassard/1/), Qubit'03 (Apr 2003, see http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~talmo/Qubitconf/QUBIT-2003/program/)
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0306182
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0306182
dc.identifierTheoretical Computer Science, Volume 320, Issue 1, Pages 15 - 33, June 2004.
dc.identifierdoi:10.1016/j.tcs.2004.03.041
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/125538
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.subjectComputational Complexity
dc.titleQuantum Computing Without Entanglement
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