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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

The quantum search algorithm consists of an alternating sequence of selective inversions and diffusion type operations, as a result of which it can find a target state in an unsorted database of size N in only sqrt(N) queries. This paper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Lov K. Grover

This paper describes a quantum algorithm for proof search in sequent calculus of a subset of Linear Logic using the Grover Search Algorithm. We briefly overview the Grover Search Algorithm and Linear Logic, show the detailed steps of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Lorenzo Saraiva , Edward Hermann Haeusler , Vaston Costa

In this paper we propose an approach to prepare GHZ states of an arbitrary multi-particle system in terms of Grover's fast quantum searching algorithm. This approach can be regarded as an extension of the Grover's algorithm to find one or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Hao-Sheng Zeng , Le-Man Kuang

Grover's algorithm is one of the most important quantum algorithms, which performs the task of searching an unsorted database without a priori probability. Recently the adiabatic evolution has been used to design and reproduce quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhaohui Wei , Mingsheng Ying

We generalize Grover's unstructured quantum search algorithm to enable it to use an arbitrary starting superposition and an arbitrary unitary matrix simultaneously. We derive an exact formula for the probability of the generalized Grover's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 Robert Gingrich , Colin P. Williams , Nicolas Cerf

This article introduces quantum computation by analogy with probabilistic computation. A basic description of the quantum search algorithm is given by representing the algorithm as a C program in a novel way.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lov K. Grover

Quantum search is among the most important algorithms in quantum computing. At its core is quantum amplitude amplification, a technique that achieves a quadratic speedup over classical search by combining two global reflections: the oracle,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 John Burke , Ciaran McGoldrick

We present a new adiabatic quantum algorithm for searching over structured databases. The new algorithm is optimized using a simplified complexity analysis.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Zaraket , V. Bagnulo , J. Kettner , R. Kobes , G. Kunstatter

Unstructured search remains as one of the significant challenges in computer science, as classical search algorithms become increasingly impractical for large-scale systems due to their linear time complexity. Quantum algorithms, notably…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Harishankar Mishra , Asvija Balasubramanyam , Gudapati Naresh Raghava

We study the unsorted database search problem with items $N$ from the viewpoint of unitary discrimination. Instead of considering the famous $O(\sqrt{N})$ Grover's the bounded-error algorithm for the original problem, we seek for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiaodi Wu , Runyao Duan

Grover's algorithm searches for data satisfying a desired condition in an unstructured database. This algorithm can search a space of size $N$ in $\sqrt{N}$ queries, thereby achieving a quadratic speedup. However, within the Grover oracle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Yusuke Kimura , Yutaka Takita

Quantum search algorithms are considered in the context of protein sequence comparison in biocomputing. Given a sample protein sequence of length m (i.e m residues), the problem considered is to find an optimal match in a large database…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

It is an established fact that for many of the interesting problems quantum algorithms based on queries of the standard oracle bring no significant improvement in comparison to known classical algorithms. It is conceivable that there are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alp Atici

Cloud computing is a powerful and popular information technology paradigm that enables data service outsourcing and provides higher-level services with minimal management effort. However, it is still a key challenge to protect data privacy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Wenjie Liu , Peipei Gao , Zhihao Liu , Hanwu Chen , Maojun Zhang

The study of quantum computation has been motivated by the hope of finding efficient quantum algorithms for solving classically hard problems. In this context, quantum algorithms by local adiabatic evolution have been shown to solve an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jérémie Roland , Nicolas J. Cerf

Quantum searching for one of $N$ marked items in an unsorted database of $n$ items is solved in $\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{n/N})$ steps using Grover's algorithm. Using nonlinear quantum dynamics with a Gross-Pitaevskii type quadratic nonlinearity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 K. de Lacy , L. Noakes

We propose a scalable implementation of Grover's quantum search algorithm in a trapped-ion quantum information processor. The system is initialized in an entangled Dicke state by using simple adiabatic techniques. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. S. Ivanov , P. A. Ivanov , I. E. Linington , N. V. Vitanov

Quantum sampling, a fundamental subroutine in numerous quantum algorithms, involves encoding a given probability distribution in the amplitudes of a pure state. Given the hefty cost of large-scale quantum storage, we initiate the study of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Longyun Chen , Jingcheng Liu , Penghui Yao

Computational devices may be supplied with external sources of information (oracles). Quantum oracles may transmit phase information which is available to a quantum computer but not a classical computer. One consequence of this observation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Machta