Quantum Portfolios
Quantum Physics
2009-11-07 v2
Abstract
Quantum computation holds promise for the solution of many intractable problems. However, since many quantum algorithms are stochastic in nature they can only find the solution of hard problems probabilistically. Thus the efficiency of the algorithms has to be characterized both by the expected time to completion {\it and} the associated variance. In order to minimize both the running time and its uncertainty, we show that portfolios of quantum algorithms analogous to those of finance can outperform single algorithms when applied to the NP-complete problems such as 3-SAT.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0105071,
title = {Quantum Portfolios},
author = {Sebastian Maurer and Tad Hogg and Bernardo Huberman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0105071},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
revision includes additional data and corrects minor typos