TY - JOUR T1 - Quantum algorithm for systems of linear equations with exponentially improved dependence on precision JF - SIAM Journal on Computing Y1 - 2017 A1 - Andrew M. Childs A1 - Robin Kothari A1 - Rolando D. Somma AB -

Harrow, Hassidim, and Lloyd showed that for a suitably specified N×N matrix A and N-dimensional vector b⃗ , there is a quantum algorithm that outputs a quantum state proportional to the solution of the linear system of equations Ax⃗ =b⃗ . If A is sparse and well-conditioned, their algorithm runs in time poly(logN,1/ϵ), where ϵ is the desired precision in the output state. We improve this to an algorithm whose running time is polynomial in log(1/ϵ), exponentially improving the dependence on precision while keeping essentially the same dependence on other parameters. Our algorithm is based on a general technique for implementing any operator with a suitable Fourier or Chebyshev series representation. This allows us to bypass the quantum phase estimation algorithm, whose dependence on ϵ is prohibitive.

VL - 46 U4 - 1920-1950 UR - http://epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/16M1087072 CP - 6 U5 - 10.1137/16M1087072 ER -