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Sample-only access is not coherent sampler access
Statement refuted
A classical interface that returns independent samples from a finite law, by itself, supplies a coherent unitary sampler together with its inverse, controlled calls, value computation, and state reflections at no additional cost.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A sample-only procedure whose sole operation returns a classical sample; it exposes no circuit or oracle acting on quantum registers.
Coherent finite sampler and observable value requires an explicitly supplied unitary with the stated coherent output state, as well as explicit inverse and controlled access and the value/rotation interfaces.
Counterexample
Let be a classical procedure that, on each call, returns a bit with . Its interface is a classical input/output map from a fresh random seed to a bit; it has no quantum-register input and specifies no unitary .
The law of does not provide a circuit for , nor circuits for , controlled , value rotations, or reflections. Thus the sample-only object fails the explicit interface required by [F1] and cannot be substituted directly into QA29's coherent-query bound.
This refutes the statement about the interface alone. It does not rule out constructing a separate coherent preparation circuit from additional information about ; such a circuit and all its costs would be new supplied inputs.
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Sources
- Ashley Montanaro, Quantum speedup of Monte Carlo methods, Sections 1–2 (standard reference, not scraped)
- John Watrous, The Theory of Quantum Information, Chapter 2 (standard reference, not scraped)