%0 Journal Article %J 43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2016) %D 2016 %T Optimal quantum algorithm for polynomial interpolation %A Andrew M. Childs %A Wim van Dam %A Shih-Han Hung %A Igor E. Shparlinski %X

We consider the number of quantum queries required to determine the coefficients of a degree-d polynomial over GF(q). A lower bound shown independently by Kane and Kutin and by Meyer and Pommersheim shows that d/2+1/2 quantum queries are needed to solve this problem with bounded error, whereas an algorithm of Boneh and Zhandry shows that d quantum queries are sufficient. We show that the lower bound is achievable: d/2+1/2 quantum queries suffice to determine the polynomial with bounded error. Furthermore, we show that d/2+1 queries suffice to achieve probability approaching 1 for large q. These upper bounds improve results of Boneh and Zhandry on the insecurity of cryptographic protocols against quantum attacks. We also show that our algorithm's success probability as a function of the number of queries is precisely optimal. Furthermore, the algorithm can be implemented with gate complexity poly(log q) with negligible decrease in the success probability.

%B 43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2016) %V 55 %P 16:1--16:13 %8 2016/03/01 %@ 978-3-95977-013-2 %G eng %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.09271 %R http://dx.doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.16