Playing Quantum Monty Hall Game in a Quantum Computer

Here, we present the quantum version of a very famous statistical decision problem, whose classical version is counter-intuitive to many. The Monty Hall game can be phrased as a two person game between Alice and Bob. In their pioneering work, Flitney and Abbott [Phys. Rev. A 65, 062318 (2002)] showed that by using a maximally entangled system for Alice and Bob's choices, and using quantum strategies, Bob and Alice can win or lose depending on the strategy chosen by either of the players. Here we develop a new quantum algorithm with quantum circuits for playing the quantum Monty Hall game by a user. Our quantum algorithm uses the quantum principles of superposition and entanglement so that it can be efficiently played on a quantum computer. We present two schemes, one calculating the probability of winning or loss and the other determining whether a player (say Alice) wins or not.

Souvik Paul, Bikash K. Behera, Prasanta K. Panigrahi · 2019