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Grover's algorithm is one of the most famous algorithms which explicitly demonstrates how the quantum nature can be utilized to accelerate the searching process. In this work, Grover's quantum search problem is mapped to a time-optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-28 Chungwei Lin , Yebin Wang , Grigory Kolesov , Uroš Kalabić

A quantum computer encodes information in quantum states and runs quantum algorithms to surpass the classical counterparts by exploiting quantum superposition and quantum correlation. Grover's quantum search algorithm is a typical quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Yutong Huang , Shengshi Pang

Grover's search algorithm is the optimal quantum algorithm that can search an unstructured database quadratically faster than any known classical algorithm. The role of entanglement and correlations in the search algorithm have been studied…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Namit Anand , Arun Kumar Pati

Grover discovered a quantum algorithm for identifying a target element in an unstructured search universe of N items in approximately square-root of N queries to a quantum oracle, thus achieving a square-root speed-up over classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Erdal Arikan

We study some extensions of Grover's quantum searching algorithm. First, we generalize the Grover iteration in the light of a concept called amplitude amplification. Then, we show that the quadratic speedup obtained by the quantum searching…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-03 Gilles Brassard , Peter Hoyer , Alain Tapp

Some quantum algorithms have "quantum speedups": improved time complexity as compared with the best-known classical algorithms for solving the same tasks. Can we understand what fuels these speedups from an entropic perspective? Information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Jason Pollack , Dylan VanAllen

A new approach to the classical limit of Grover's algorithm is discussed by assuming a very rapid dephasing of a system between consecutive Grover's unitary operations, which drives pure quantum states to decohered mixed states. One can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Kazuo Fujikawa , C. H. Oh , Koichiro Umetsu

Quantum computation has attracted much attention since it was shown by Shor and Grover the possibility to implement quantum algorithms able to realize, respectively, factoring and searching in a faster way than any other known classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rubens Viana Ramos , Paulo Benicio de Sousa , David Sena Oliveira

Grover's quantum search algorithm provides a quadratic speedup over the classical one. The computational complexity is based on the number of queries to the oracle. However, depth is a more modern metric for noisy intermediate-scale quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 Kun Zhang , Vladimir E. Korepin

Quantum algorithms can deliver asymptotic speedups over their classical counterparts. However, there are few cases where a substantial quantum speedup has been worked out in detail for reasonably-sized problems, when compared with the best…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Earl Campbell , Ankur Khurana , Ashley Montanaro

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

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

I improve the tight bound on quantum searching by Boyer et al. (quant-ph/9605034) to a matching bound, thus showing that for any probability of success Grovers quantum searching algorithm is optimal. E.g. for near certain success we have to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Christof Zalka

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

Grover's search algorithm is the cornerstone of many applications of quantum computing, providing a quadratic speed-up over classical methods. One limitation of the algorithm is that it requires knowledge of the number of solutions to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Samuel Cogan , Jonathan Raghoonanan , Tim Byrnes

The use of superposition of states in quantum computation, known as quantum parallelism, has significant advantage in terms of speed over the classical computation. It can be understood from the early invented quantum algorithms such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-17 Pulak Ranjan Giri , Vladimir E. Korepin

Given a parameterized quantum circuit such that a certain setting of these real-valued parameters corresponds to Grover's celebrated search algorithm, can a variational algorithm recover these settings and hence learn Grover's algorithm? We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-02 Mauro E. S. Morales , Timur Tlyachev , Jacob Biamonte

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

Grover's algorithm provides a quadratic speedup over classical algorithms for searching unstructured databases and is known to be strictly optimal in oracle query complexity, with tight bounds on its success probability. Although the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Yan-Bo Jiang , Xiao-Hui Wang , Kun Zhang , Vladimir Korepin

Grover's algorithm, orginally conceived as a means of searching an unordered database, can also be used to extract solutions from the result sets generated by quantum computations. The Grover algorithm exploits the concept of an oracle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Fintan M. Bolton