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Adversary Lower Bounds for Nonadaptive Quantum Algorithms

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Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC 2008)

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We present general methods for proving lower bounds on the query complexity of nonadaptive quantum algorithms. Our results are based on the adversary method of Ambainis.

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Koiran, P., Landes, J., Portier, N., Yao, P. (2008). Adversary Lower Bounds for Nonadaptive Quantum Algorithms. In: Hodges, W., de Queiroz, R. (eds) Logic, Language, Information and Computation. WoLLIC 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5110. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69937-8_20

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