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In this paper, we present a novel formulation of traditional sampling-based motion planners as database-oracle structures that can be solved via quantum search algorithms. We consider two complementary scenarios: for simpler sparse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Paul Lathrop , Beth Boardman , Sonia Martínez

Given an item and a list of values of size $N$. It is required to decide if such item exists in the list. Classical computer can search for the item in O(N). The best known quantum algorithm can do the job in $O(\sqrt{N})$. In this paper, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-27 Ahmed Younes

The question of which resources drive the advantages in quantum algorithms has long been a fundamental challenge. While entanglement and coherence are critical to many quantum algorithms, our results indicate that they do not fully explain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Si-Qi Zhou , Hai Jin , Jin-Min Liang , Shao-Ming Fei , Yunlong Xiao , Zhihao Ma

We give a technique to reduce the error probability of quantum algorithms that determine whether its input has a specified property of interest. The standard process of reducing this error is statistical processing of the results of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Debajyoti Bera , Tharrmashastha P.

Studies on Quantum Computing have been developed since the 1980s, motivating researches on quantum algorithms better than any classical algorithm possible. An example of such algorithms is Grover's algorithm, capable of finding $k$ (marked)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-08 Gustavo Alves Bezerra

In this paper, we analyze the potential for new types of searches using the formalism of scattering random walks on Quantum Computers. Given a particular type of graph consisting of nodes and connections, a "Tree Maze", we would like to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Daniel Koch , Mark Hillery

We study the discrete-time quantum walk-based search for a marked vertex on a graph. By considering various structures in which not all vertices are equivalent, we investigate the relationship between the successful search probability and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Scott D. Berry , Jingbo B. Wang

Since Grover's seminal work which provides a way to speed up combinatorial search, quantum search has been studied in great detail. We propose a new method for designing quantum search algorithms for finding a marked element in the state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-07 R. Sufiani , N. Bahari

A quantum algorithm is known that solves an unstructured search problem in a number of iterations of order $\sqrt{d}$, where $d$ is the dimension of the search space, whereas any classical algorithm necessarily scales as $O(d)$. It is shown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. J. Cerf , L. K. Grover , C. P. Williams

Random walks can be used to search complex networks for a desired resource. To reduce search lengths, we propose a mechanism based on building random walks connecting together partial walks (PW) previously computed at each network node.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-04-19 Víctor M. López Millán , Vicent Cholvi , Luis López , Antonio Fernández Anta

We initiate a systematic study of pseudo-deterministic quantum algorithms. These are quantum algorithms that, for any input, output a canonical solution with high probability. Focusing on the query complexity model, our main contributions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Hugo Aaronson , Tom Gur , Jiawei Li

With reference to a search in a database of size N, Grover states: "What is the reason that one would expect that a quantum mechanical scheme could accomplish the search in O(square root of N) steps? It would be insightful to have a simple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Giuseppe Castagnoli

We solve an open problem by constructing quantum walks that not only detect but also find marked vertices in a graph. In the case when the marked set $M$ consists of a single vertex, the number of steps of the quantum walk is quadratically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-01 Hari Krovi , Frédéric Magniez , Maris Ozols , Jérémie Roland

Quantum walk has emerged as an essential tool for searching marked vertices on various graphs. Recent advances in the discrete-time quantum walk search algorithm have enabled it to effectively handle multiple marked vertices, expanding its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Pulak Ranjan Giri , Rei Sato , Kazuhiro Saito

We propose two quantum algorithms for a problem in bioinformatics, position weight matrix (PWM) matching, which aims to find segments (sequence motifs) in a biological sequence such as DNA and protein that have high scores defined by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Koichi Miyamoto , Naoki Yamamoto , Yasubumi Sakakibara

Quantum walks are powerful tools for building quantum search algorithms or quantum sampling algorithms named the construction of quantum stationary state. However, the success probability of those algorithms are all far away from 1.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-12 Xinying Li , Yun Shang

Variational quantum algorithms have become the de facto model for current quantum computations. A prominent example of such algorithms -- the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) -- was originally designed for combinatorial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Ernesto Campos , Daniil Rabinovich , Alexey Uvarov

This paper examines the performance of spatial search where the Grover diffusion operator is replaced by continuous-time quantum walks on a class of interdependent networks. We prove that for a set of optimal quantum walk times and marked…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-26 S. Marsh , J. B. Wang

Quantum search is a quantum mechanical technique for searching N possibilities in only sqrt(N) steps. This paper gives a fresh perspective on the algorithm in terms of a resonance phenomenon which is implemented through classical coupled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lov K. Grover , Anirvan Sengupta

We provide a tight analysis of Grover's recent algorithm for quantum database searching. We give a simple closed-form formula for the probability of success after any given number of iterations of the algorithm. This allows us to determine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Michel Boyer , Gilles Brassard , Peter Hoeyer , Alain Tapp