Bias-Class Discrimination of Universal QRAM Boolean Memories
Abstract
We study the discrimination of Boolean memory configurations via a fixed Universal QRAM (U-QRAM) interface. Given query access to a quantum memory storing an unknown Boolean function f:[N]\0,1\, we ask: what can be inferred about the bias class of f (its imbalance from 1/2, up to complement symmetry) using coherent, addressable queries? We show that for exact-weight bias classes, the induced single-query ensemble state on the address register has a two-eigenspace structure that yields closed-form expressions for the single-copy Helstrom-optimal measurement and success probability. Because complementing f changes the state | only by a global phase, hypotheses p and 1-p are information-theoretically identical in this model; thus the natural discriminand is the phase-bias magnitude |μ| (equivalently μ2). This goes beyond the perfect-discrimination case of Deutsch-Jozsa and complements exact-identification settings such as Bernstein-Vazirani.
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