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Creating superpositions that correspond to efficiently integrable probability distributions

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arxiv quant-ph/0208112 v1 pith:VYCQQRXZ submitted 2002-08-15 quant-ph

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We give a simple and efficient process for generating a quantum superposition of states which form a discrete approximation of any efficiently integrable (such as log concave) probability density functions.

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