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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 iii Paper 58 2 ii Solution by
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The amplitude amplification theorem concerns a known preparation quantum circuit and a good-subspace projector . Write , with . Let and . ThenThe reflection operators preserve the two-dimensional good-bad plane and rotate it by , so iterations amplify a small known success probability to a constant close to one. Each iteration uses one good-subspace phase test and one use each of , together with a known reflection. Amplitude amplification provides a quadratic improvement in the number of repetitions of a successful preparation. The query cost of the preparation and its inverse must be included when they themselves use the input oracle. Exact amplitude amplification uses additional known-overlap preparation or phase matching to avoid integer-iteration overshoot.
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