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Feedback-based quantum optimization is a quantum approach to combinatorial optimization. In this paper, we introduce the classical counterpart of feedback-based quantum optimization by using the quantum-classical correspondence of spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Tomohiro Hattori , Takuya Hatomura

The graph isomorphism problem is theoretically interesting and also has many practical applications. The best known classical algorithms for graph isomorphism all run in time super-polynomial in the size of the graph in the worst case. An…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-26 David Rosenbaum

Many quantum algorithms for attacking symmetric cryptography involve the rank problem of quantum linear equations. In this paper, we first propose two quantum algorithms for solving quantum linear systems of equations with coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Qiqing Xia , Qianru Zhu , Huiqin Xie , Li Yang

(Abridged.) Quantum computers promise to solve some problems exponentially faster than traditional computers, but we still do not fully understand why this is the case. While the most studied model of quantum computation uses qubits, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Cameron Calcluth

The hidden shift problem is a natural place to look for new separations between classical and quantum models of computation. One advantage of this problem is its flexibility, since it can be defined for a whole range of functions and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-05 Dmitry Gavinsky , Martin Roetteler , Jérémie Roland

A new type of algorithms is presented that combine the advantages of quantum and classical ones. Those combined advantages along with aspects of Geometric Algebra that open possibilities unavailable to both of these computations are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marcin Pawłowski

While efficient algorithms are known for solving many important problems related to groups, no efficient algorithm is known for determining whether two arbitrary groups are isomorphic. The particular case of 2-nilpotent groups, a special…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-08 Kevin C. Zatloukal

The fastest quantum algorithms (for the solution of classical computational tasks) known so far are basically variations of the hidden subgroup problem with {$f(U[x])=f(x)$}. Following a discussion regarding which tasks might be solved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Schützhold , W. G. Unruh

An open problem in communication complexity proposed by several authors is to prove that for every Boolean function f, the task of computing f(x AND y) has polynomially related classical and quantum bounded-error complexities. We solve a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Alexander A. Sherstov

In the field of quantum linear system algorithms, quantum computing has realized exponential computational advantages over classical computing. However, the focus has been on square coefficient matrices, with few quantum algorithms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Weitao Lin , Guojing Tian , Xiaoming Sun

Many modern asymmetric encryption methods rely on prime numbers, as they have distinctive properties. For instance, the security of RSA cryptosystem relies on the computational difficulty of factoring a large composite number in its prime…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Anas A. Abudaqa , Nujud Alyami , Mostefa Kara , Farid Binbeshr , Muhammad Imam , Amjad Abuhassan

We explore the possibility of accelerating the formal verification of classical programs with a quantum computer. A common source of security flaws stems from the existence of common programming errors like use after free, null-pointer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Sebastian Issel , Kilian Tscharke , Pascal Debus

The computational cost of exact methods for quantum simulation using classical computers grows exponentially with system size. As a consequence, these techniques can only be applied to small systems. By contrast, we demonstrate that quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-17 Ivan Kassal , Stephen P. Jordan , Peter J. Love , Masoud Mohseni , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Despite significant effort, the quantum machine learning community has only demonstrated quantum learning advantages for artificial cryptography-inspired datasets when dealing with classical data. In this paper we address the challenge of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-14 Casper Gyurik , Vedran Dunjko

Harrow, Hassidim, and Lloyd showed that for a suitably specified $N \times N$ matrix $A$ and $N$-dimensional vector $\vec{b}$, there is a quantum algorithm that outputs a quantum state proportional to the solution of the linear system of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 Andrew M. Childs , Robin Kothari , Rolando D. Somma

Quantum computing enables the efficient resolution of complex problems, often outperforming classical methods across various applications. In 2009, Harrow, Hassidim and Lloyd proposed an algorithm for solving linear systems of equations,…

It is shown that quantum computer can detect the existence of root of a function almost exponentially more efficient than the classical counterpart. It is also shown that a quantum computer can produce quantum state corresponding to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Nhat A. Nghiem

Simulating quantum circuits using classical computers lets us analyse the inner workings of quantum algorithms. The most complete type of simulation, strong simulation, is believed to be generally inefficient. Nevertheless, several…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-25 T. H. Johnson , J. D. Biamonte , S. R. Clark , D. Jaksch

This paper summarizes a quantum algorithm of [R.D. Somma, et.al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 130504 (2008)] that simulates a classical annealing process for solving discrete optimization problems. The complexity of the quantum algorithm scales…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Sergio Boixo , Rolando D. Somma

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sebastian Maurer , Tad Hogg , Bernardo Huberman