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A unique sink orientation (USO) is an orientation of the hypercube graph with the property that every face has a unique sink. A number of well-studied problems reduce in strongly polynomial time to finding the global sink of a USO; most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Yuan Gao , Bernd Gärtner , Jourdain Lamperski

Unique Sink Orientations (USOs) are an appealing abstraction of several major optimization problems of applied mathematics such as for instance Linear Programming (LP), Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) or 2-player Turn Based Stochastic…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-01-12 Romain Hollanders , Balázs Gerencsér , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Raphaël M. Jungers

A unique sink orientation (USO) is an orientation of the edges of a hypercube such that each face has a unique sink. Many optimization problems like linear programs reduce to USOs, in the sense that each vertex corresponds to a possible…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Tiago Oliveira Marques

In this paper we give a polynomial-time quantum algorithm for computing orders of solvable groups. Several other problems, such as testing membership in solvable groups, testing equality of subgroups in a given solvable group, and testing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John Watrous

We consider a recently proposed generalisation of the abelian hidden subgroup problem: the shifted subset problem. The problem is to determine a subset S of some abelian group, given access to quantum states of the form |S+x>, for some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-18 Ashley Montanaro

A new quantum algorithm for a search problem and its computational complexity are discussed. It is shown in the search problem containing 2^n objects that our algorithm runs in polynomial time.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-24 S. Iriyama , M. Ohya , I. V. Volovich

An orientation of a grid is called unique sink orientation (USO) if each of its nonempty subgrids has a unique sink. Particularly, the original grid itself has a unique global sink. In this work we investigate the problem of how to find the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Xiaoming Sun , Jialin Zhang , Zhijie Zhang

This paper proposes a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm to solve a fundamental power system problem called unit commitment (UC). The UC problem is decomposed into a quadratic subproblem, a quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Reza Mahroo , Amin Kargarian

The orbit problem is at the heart of symmetry reduction methods for model checking concurrent systems. It asks whether two given configurations in a concurrent system (represented as finite strings over some finite alphabet) are in the same…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Anthony Widjaja Lin , Sanming Zhou

The linear complementarity problem (LCP) provides a unified approach to many problems such as linear programs, convex quadratic programs, and bimatrix games. The general LCP is known to be NP-hard, but there are some promising results that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-14 Lorenz Klaus , Hiroyuki Miyata

A unified approach, for solving a wide class of single and many-body quantum problems, commonly encountered in literature is developed based on a recently proposed method for finding solutions of linear differential equations. Apart from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Gurappa , Prasanta K. Panigrahi , R. Atre , T. Shreecharan

An efficient quantum algorithm is proposed to solve in polynomial time the parity problem, one of the hardest problems both in conventional quantum computation and in classical computation, on NMR quantum computers. It is based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xijia Miao

Considering the difficult problem under classical computing model can be solved by the quantum algorithm in polynomial time, t-multiple discrete logarithm problems presented. The problem is non-degeneracy and unique solution. We talk about…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Xiangqun Fu , Wansu Bao , Jianhong Shi , Xiang Wang

Optimization problems in disciplines such as machine learning are commonly solved with iterative methods. Gradient descent algorithms find local minima by moving along the direction of steepest descent while Newton's method takes into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-20 Patrick Rebentrost , Maria Schuld , Leonard Wossnig , Francesco Petruccione , Seth Lloyd

In this paper, we give a quantum algorithm which solves collision problem in an expected polynomial time. Especially, when the function is two-to-one, we present a quantum algorithm which can find a collision with certainty in a worst-case…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Dong Pyo Chi , Jinsoo Kim

Quantum computers can execute algorithms that sometimes dramatically outperform classical computation. Undoubtedly the best-known example of this is Shor's discovery of an efficient quantum algorithm for factoring integers, whereas the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Wim van Dam , Yoshitaka Sasaki

Quantum computing provides a powerful framework for tackling computational problems that are classically intractable. The goal of this paper is to explore the use of quantum computers for solving relevant problems in systems and control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Jan Schneider , Julian Berberich

Nonlinear equations are challenging to solve due to their inherently nonlinear nature. As analytical solutions typically do not exist, numerical methods have been developed to tackle their solutions. In this article, we give a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Nhat A. Nghiem , Tzu-Chieh Wei

Distance geometry problem belongs to a class of hard problems in classical computation that can be understood in terms of a set of inputs processed according to a given transformation, and for which the number of possible outcomes grows…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-05-27 S. B. Hengeveld , N. Rubiano da Silva , D. S. Gonçalves , P. H. Souto Ribeiro , A. Mucherino

We present a polynomial-time quantum algorithm for the Hidden Subgroup Problem over $\mathbb{D}_{2^n}$. The usual approach to the Hidden Subgroup Problem relies on harmonic analysis in the domain of the problem, and the best known algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-24 Matthew Moore , Grace Young
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