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We introduce a novel deterministic quantum search algorithm that provides a practical alternative to conventional probabilistic search approaches. Our scheme eliminates the inherent uncertainty of quantum search without relying on arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 John Burke , Ciaran McGoldrick

This paper introduces a quantum-classical hybrid algorithm for generalized pattern search (GPS) algorithms. We introduce a quantum search step algorithm using amplitude amplification, which reduces the number of oracle calls needed during…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 Colton Mikes , Ismael R. de Farias , David Huckleberry Gutman , Victoria E. Howle

A quantum walk on a lattice is a paradigm of a quantum search in a database. The database qubit strings are the lattice sites, qubit rotations are tunneling events, and the target site is tagged by an energy shift. For quantum walks on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Emma C. King , Moritz Linnebacher , Peter P. Orth , Matteo Rizzi , Giovanna Morigi

We investigate hide-and-seek games on complex networks using a random walk framework. Specifically, we investigate the efficiency of various degree-biased random walk search strategies to locate items that are randomly hidden on a subset of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-02-20 Shubham Pandey , Reimer Kuehn

Perceptrons, which perform binary classification, are the fundamental building blocks of neural networks. Given a data set of size~$N$ and margin~$\gamma$ (how well the given data are separated), the query complexity of the best-known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Pengcheng Liao , Barry C. Sanders , Tim Byrnes

Withdrawn by the author due to irreparable errors. We present a quantum algorithm that in the black-box model performs a search in an ordered list of N elements. Using 3/4 log N + O(1) queries, it achieves a success probability of at least…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hein Roehrig

Quantum walks provide a framework for understanding and designing quantum algorithms that is both intuitive and universal. To leverage the computational power of these walks, it is important to be able to programmably modify the graph a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Aaron W. Young , William J. Eckner , Nathan Schine , Andrew M. Childs , Adam M. Kaufman

Quantum search algorithms offer a remarkable advantage of quadratic reduction in query complexity using quantum superposition principle. However, how an actual architecture may access and handle the database in a quantum superposed state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-06 Jung Jun Park , Kyunghyun Baek , M. S. Kim , Hyunchul Nha , Jaewan Kim , Jeongho Bang

In this paper we present a novel quantum algorithm, namely the quantum grid search algorithm, to solve a special search problem. Suppose $ k $ non-empty buckets are given, such that each bucket contains some marked and some unmarked items.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Alok Shukla , Prakash Vedula

Multi-dimensional quantum walks can exhibit highly non-trivial topological structure, providing a powerful tool for simulating quantum information and transport systems. We present a flexible implementation of a 2D optical quantum walk on a…

A discrete time quantum walk is known to be the single-particle sector of a quantum cellular automaton. Searching in this mathematical framework has interested the community since a long time. However, most results consider spatial search…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Mathieu Roget , Giuseppe Di Molfetta

We prove that a quantum walk can detect the presence of a marked element in a graph in $O(\sqrt{WR})$ steps for any initial probability distribution on vertices. Here, $W$ is the total weight of the graph, and $R$ is the effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-14 Aleksandrs Belovs

Recently the continuous time algorithm based on the generalized quantum search Hamiltonian was presented. In this letter, we consider the running time of the generalized quantum search Hamiltonian. We provide the surprising result that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joonwoo Bae , Younghun Kwon

Motivated by the immense success of random walk and Markov chain methods in the design of classical algorithms, we consider_quantum_ walks on graphs. We analyse in detail the behaviour of unbiased quantum walk on the line, with the example…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ashwin Nayak , Ashvin Vishwanath

Suppose we have n algorithms, quantum or classical, each computing some bit-value with bounded error probability. We describe a quantum algorithm that uses O(sqrt{n}) repetitions of the base algorithms and with high probability finds the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-03 Peter Hoyer , Michele Mosca , Ronald de Wolf

We show that by a suitable choice of time-dependent Hamiltonian, the search for a marked item in an unstructured database can be achieved in unit time, using Adiabatic Quantum Computation. This is a considerable improvement over the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daria Ahrensmeier , Saurya Das , Randy Kobes , Gabor Kunstatter , Haitham Zaraket

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

Quantum walk algorithms can speed up search of physical regions of space in both the discrete-time [arXiv:quant-ph/0402107] and continuous-time setting [arXiv:quant-ph/0306054], where the physical region of space being searched is modeled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 Jeremy Cook

In this paper, we provide faster algorithms for computing various fundamental quantities associated with random walks on a directed graph, including the stationary distribution, personalized PageRank vectors, hitting times, and escape…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Michael B. Cohen , Jon Kelner , John Peebles , Richard Peng , Aaron Sidford , Adrian Vladu

We construct a quantum random walk algorithm, based on the Dirac operator instead of the Laplacian. The algorithm explores multiple evolutionary branches by superposition of states, and does not require the coin toss instruction of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Apoorva Patel , K. S. Raghunathan , Pranaw Rungta