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In this paper we explore the power of quantum computers with restricted amplitudes. Adleman, DeMarrais and Huang showed that quantum Turing machines (QTMs) with the amplitudes from A = {0,±3/5, ±4/5 ,±1} are equivalent to ones with the polynomial-time computable amplitudes as machines implementing bounded-error polynomial time algorithms. We show that QTMs with the amplitudes from A is polynomial-time equivalent to deterministic Turing machines as machines implementing exact algorithms. Extending this result, it is shown that exact computers with rational biased ‘quantum coins’ are equivalent to classical computers. We also show that from the viewpoint of zero-error algorithms A is not more useful than B = {0,± 1/√2 ,±1} but suficient for the factoring problem as the set of amplitudes taken by QTMs.
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Nishimura, H. (2002). On Quantum Computation with Some Restricted Amplitudes. In: Alt, H., Ferreira, A. (eds) STACS 2002. STACS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2285. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45841-7_25
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