In this paper, we show new algorithms, hardness results and applications for (\sf{S|LWE\rangle}) and (\sf{C|LWE\rangle}) with real Gaussian, Gaussian with linear or quadratic phase terms, and other related amplitudes. Let (n) be the dimension of LWE samples. Our main results are
- There is a (2^{\tilde{O}(\sqrt{n})})-time algorithm for (\sf{S|LWE\rangle}) with Gaussian amplitude with known phase, given (2^{\tilde{O}(\sqrt{n})}) many quantum samples. The algorithm is modified from Kuperberg’s sieve, and in fact works for more general amplitudes as long as the amplitudes and phases are completely known.
- There is a polynomial time quantum algorithm for solving (\sf{S|LWE\rangle}) and (\sf{C|LWE\rangle}) for Gaussian with quadratic phase amplitudes, where the sample complexity is as small as (\tilde{O}(n)). As an application, we give a quantum oblivious LWE sampler where the core quantum sampler requires only quasi-linear sample complexity. This improves upon the previous oblivious LWE sampler given by Debris-Alazard, Fallahpour, Stehl'{e} [STOC 2024], whose core quantum sampler requires (\tilde{O}(nr)) sample complexity, where (r) is the standard deviation of the error.
- There exist polynomial time quantum reductions from standard LWE or worst-case GapSVP to (\sf{S|LWE\rangle}) with Gaussian amplitude with small unknown phase, and arbitrarily many samples. Compared to the first two items, the appearance of the unknown phase term places a barrier in designing efficient quantum algorithm for solving standard LWE via (\sf{S|LWE\rangle}).