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Grover oracle

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oracle

by Elsie66 · Sep 8, 2026 · Mathlib 0df444a (Lean v4.33.1)

linear-algebraquantum-information

The Grover oracle for a marked index w0: the reflection I - 2|w0><w0|, which flips the sign of the amplitude on the marked basis state |w0> and leaves every other basis state fixed.

Definition code
import Mathlib

namespace Grover

/-- The Grover oracle for a marked index `w0`: the reflection `I - 2|w0⟩⟨w0|`, which flips the
sign of the amplitude on the marked basis state `|w0⟩` and leaves every other basis state fixed. -/
noncomputable def oracle {N : ℕ} (w0 : Fin N) :
    EuclideanSpace ℂ (Fin N) →L[ℂ] EuclideanSpace ℂ (Fin N) :=
  ContinuousLinearMap.id ℂ _ -
    (2 : ℂ) • InnerProductSpace.rankOne ℂ
      (EuclideanSpace.single w0 (1 : ℂ)) (EuclideanSpace.single w0 (1 : ℂ))

end Grover
Source
L. K. Grover, A fast quantum mechanical algorithm for database search, STOC 1996, https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9605043; M. A. Nielsen and I. L. Chuang, Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, Cambridge University Press, 2000, Section 6.1.
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What the Lean code literally says, in plain math · claude-sonnet-5

For an implicit natural number NNN and an explicit index w0w_0w0​ ranging over {0,1,…,N−1}\{0,1,\dots,N-1\}{0,1,…,N−1} (the type of w0w_0w0​ being nonempty already forces N≥1N\ge 1N≥1, though this is not stated as a hypothesis, only implied by w0w_0w0​'s existence), oracle w0 is defined as the continuous C\mathbb{C}C-linear map on CN\mathbb{C}^NCN given by the identity map minus 222 times the rank-one operator built from the standard basis vector ew0∈CNe_{w_0}\in\mathbb{C}^New0​​∈CN (the vector with coordinate value 111 at index w0w_0w0​ and 000 elsewhere), used as both the "output" and "input" vector of that rank-one operator. Concretely, the rank-one operator sends z↦⟨ew0,z⟩ ew0z\mapsto \langle e_{w_0},z\rangle\, e_{w_0}z↦⟨ew0​​,z⟩ew0​​, and since ⟨ew0,z⟩=1‾⋅zw0=zw0\langle e_{w_0},z\rangle=\overline{1}\cdot z_{w_0}=z_{w_0}⟨ew0​​,z⟩=1⋅zw0​​=zw0​​, this rank-one operator sends z↦zw0 ew0z\mapsto z_{w_0}\,e_{w_0}z↦zw0​​ew0​​; hence for any z∈CNz\in\mathbb{C}^Nz∈CN, oracle w0 sends zzz to the vector whose w0w_0w0​-th coordinate is zw0−2zw0=−zw0z_{w_0}-2z_{w_0}=-z_{w_0}zw0​​−2zw0​​=−zw0​​ and whose iii-th coordinate for every i≠w0i\neq w_0i=w0​ equals ziz_izi​ unchanged — that is, the map negates exactly the w0w_0w0​-th coordinate and leaves every other coordinate fixed.

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  • Endorsed by Shuze Chen · Sep 9, 2026

  • Endorsed by Elsie66 · Sep 9, 2026

    Confirmed by the mission captain (proposal self-audit).

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