21161nas a2200205 45000080041000000200022000410220014000632450069000772100068001462600015002143000016002294900007002455202053400252100002020786700002420806700002420830700002220854700002520876856005420901 2016 eng d a978-3-95977-013-2 a1868-896900aSpace-Efficient Error Reduction for Unitary Quantum Computations0 aSpaceEfficient Error Reduction for Unitary Quantum Computations c2016/04/27 a14:1--14:140 v553 a

This paper develops general space-efficient methods for error reduction for unitary quantum computation. Consider a polynomial-time quantum computation with completeness c and soundnesss, either with or without a witness (corresponding to QMA and BQP, respectively). To convert this computation into a new computation with error at most 2p, the most space-efficient method known requires extra workspace of O(plog1cs) qubits. This space requirement is too large for scenarios like logarithmic-space quantum computations. This paper presents error-reduction methods for unitary quantum computations (i.e., computations without intermediate measurements) that require extra workspace of just O(logpcs) qubits. This in particular gives the first methods of strong amplification for logarithmic-space unitary quantum computations with two-sided bounded error. This also leads to a number of consequences in complexity theory, such as the uselessness of quantum witnesses in bounded-error logarithmic-space unitary quantum computations, the PSPACE upper bound for QMA with exponentially-small completeness-soundness gap, and strong amplification for matchgate computations.

1 aFefferman, Bill1 aKobayashi, Hirotada1 aLin, Cedric, Yen-Yu1 aMorimae, Tomoyuki1 aNishimura, Harumichi uhttp://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2016/629701021nas a2200169 4500008004100000245009300041210006900134260001500203300001200218490000700230520048600237100002400723700002400747700001800771700002500789856003700814 2012 eng d00aAchieving perfect completeness in classical-witness quantum Merlin-Arthur proof systems0 aAchieving perfect completeness in classicalwitness quantum Merli c2012/05/01 a461-4710 v123 a This paper proves that classical-witness quantum Merlin-Arthur proof systems can achieve perfect completeness. That is, QCMA = QCMA1. This holds under any gate set with which the Hadamard and arbitrary classical reversible transformations can be exactly implemented, e.g., {Hadamard, Toffoli, NOT}. The proof is quantumly nonrelativizing, and uses a simple but novel quantum technique that additively adjusts the success probability, which may be of independent interest. 1 aJordan, Stephen, P.1 aKobayashi, Hirotada1 aNagaj, Daniel1 aNishimura, Harumichi uhttp://arxiv.org/abs/1111.5306v2