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Quantum Algorithms for the Minimum Steiner Tree problem with application to Binary Near-Perfect Phylogenies

Quantum Physics 2025-10-14 v1

Abstract

We present a quantum algorithm in bioinformatics for solving the Binary Near-Perfect Phylogeny Problem (BNPP) with a complexity bound of O(8.926q+8qnm2)O(8.926^q + 8^q nm2), where n is the number of input taxa and m is the sequence length for each taxon with each character in the sequence being a binary bit using the QRAM model. We give another polynomial space exact algorithm for the Minimum Steiner Tree (MST) problem with complexity O(e(1+g(k,l))k)O^*(e^{(1+g(k,l))k}) in the circuit model.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2510.09911,
  title  = {Quantum Algorithms for the Minimum Steiner Tree problem with application to Binary Near-Perfect Phylogenies},
  author = {Lingfa Meng and David Salvador Novo and Albert H. Werner and Samir Bhatt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.09911},
  year   = {2025}
}
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