Quantum algorithms for finding extrema with unary predicates

We study the problem of finding the maximum or the minimum of a given set S = {x₀, X₁, ... X n₋₁}, each element X i drawn from some finite universe [Unary] of real numbers. We assume that the inputs are abstracted within an oracle O where we can only gain information through unary comparisons in the...

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Main Author: Chan, Man Hon
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31586