A simple quantum algorithm to efficiently prepare sparse states
Quantum Physics
2023-10-31 v1
Abstract
State preparation is a fundamental routine in quantum computation, for which many algorithms have been proposed. Among them, perhaps the simplest one is the Grover-Rudolph algorithm. In this paper, we analyse the performance of this algorithm when the state to prepare is sparse. We show that the gate complexity is linear in the number of non-zero amplitudes in the state and quadratic in the number of qubits. We then introduce a simple modification of the algorithm, which makes the dependence on the number of qubits also linear. This is competitive with the best known algorithms for sparse state preparation
Cite
@article{arxiv.2310.19309,
title = {A simple quantum algorithm to efficiently prepare sparse states},
author = {Debora Ramacciotti and Andreea-Iulia Lefterovici and Antonio F. Rotundo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.19309},
year = {2023}
}