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Fast quantum algorithms can solve important computational problems more efficiently than classical algorithms. However, little is known about whether quantum computing can speed up solving geometric problems. This article explores quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Guanzhong Li , Lvzhou Li

Quantum walks are referred to as quantum analogs to random walks in mathematics. They have been studied as quantum algorithms in quantum information for quantum computers. There are two types of quantum walks. One is the discrete-time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Takuya Machida

Continuous-time quantum walks have proven to be an extremely useful framework for the design of several quantum algorithms. Often, the running time of quantum algorithms in this framework is characterized by the quantum hitting time: the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Yosi Atia , Shantanav Chakraborty

We present a quantum algorithm that has rigorous runtime guarantees for several families of binary optimization problems, including Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO), Ising spin glasses ($p$-spin model), and $k$-local…

Despite intensive research, the physical origin of the speed-up offered by quantum algorithms remains mysterious. No general physical quantity, like, for instance, entanglement, can be singled out as the essential useful resource. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-15 Valentin Gebhart , Luca Pezzè , Augusto Smerzi

We propose fast and practical quantum-inspired classical algorithms for solving linear systems. Specifically, given sampling and query access to a matrix $A\in\mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$ and a vector $b\in\mathbb{R}^m$, we propose classical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Qian Zuo , Tongyang Li

Let $f$ denote length preserving function on words. A classical algorithm can be considered as $T$ iterated applications of black box representing $f$, beginning with input word $x$ of length $n$. It is proved that if $T=O(2^{n/(7+e)}), e…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuri Ozhigov

We consider whether trainable quantum unitaries can be used to discover quantum speed-ups for classical problems. Using methods recently developed for training quantum neural nets, we consider Simon's problem, for which there is a known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-28 Kwok Ho Wan , Feiyang Liu , Oscar Dahlsten , M. S. Kim

We present an exact quantum algorithm for solving the Exact Satisfiability (XSAT) problem, which belongs to the important NP-complete complexity class. The algorithm is based on an intuitive approach that can be divided into two parts:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-30 Salvatore Mandrà , Gian Giacomo Guerreschi , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Spectral methods are a leading approach for tensor PCA with a ``spiked" Gaussian tensor. The methods use the spectrum of a linear operator in a vector space with exponentially high dimension and in Ref. 1 it was shown that quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Matthew B. Hastings

Quantum algorithm is an algorithm for solving mathematical problems using quantum systems encoded as information, which is found to outperform classical algorithms in some specific cases. The objective of this study is to develop a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 Theerapat Tansuwannont , Surachate Limkumnerd , Sujin Suwanna , Pruet Kalasuwan

Logistic regression (LR) is an important machine learning model for classification, with wide applications in text classification, image analysis and medicine diagnosis, etc. However, training LR generally entails an iterative gradient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-12 Hai-Ling Liu , Chao-Hua Yu , Yu-Sen Wu , Shi-Jie Pan , Su-Juan Qin , Fei Gao , Qiao-Yan Wen

Vector set orthogonal normalization and matrix QR decomposition are fundamental problems in matrix analysis with important applications in many fields. We know that Gram-Schmidt process is a widely used method to solve these two problems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Zi-Ming Li , Yu-xi Liu

Quantum algorithms have demonstrated provable speedups over classical counterparts, yet establishing a comprehensive theoretical framework to understand the quantum advantage remains a core challenge. In this work, we decode the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Si-Qi Zhou , Jin-Min Liang , Ziheng Ding , Zhihua Chen , Shao-Ming Fei , Zhihao Ma

Hitting the exit node from the entrance node faster on a graph is one of the properties that quantum walk algorithms can take advantage of to outperform classical random walk algorithms. Especially, continuous-time quantum walks on…

We show how a quantum walk can be used to find a marked edge or a marked complete subgraph of a complete graph. We employ a version of a quantum walk, the scattering walk, which lends itself to experimental implementation. The edges are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Mark Hillery , Daniel Reitzner , Vladimir Buzek

In quantum computing, the quantum walk search algorithm is designed for locating fixed marked nodes within a graph. However, when multiple marked nodes exist, the conventional search algorithm lacks the capacity to simultaneously amplify…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Himanshu Sahu , Kallol Sen

An unstructured search for one item out of N can be performed quantum mechanically in time of order square root of N whereas classically this requires of order N steps. This raises the question of whether square root speedup persists in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Edward Farhi , Sam Gutmann

We cast encryption via classical block ciphers in terms of operator spreading in a dual space of Pauli strings, a formulation which allows us to characterize classical ciphers by using tools well known in the analysis of quantum many-body…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Claudio Chamon , Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Andrei E. Ruckenstein

Quantum algorithms theoretically outperform classical algorithms in solving problems of increasing size, but computational errors must be kept to a minimum to realize this potential. Despite the development of increasingly capable quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-22 Bibek Pokharel , Daniel A. Lidar