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Grover's search algorithm is renowned for its dramatic speedup in solving many important scientific problems. The recently proposed Variational Quantum Search (VQS) algorithm has shown an exponential advantage over Grover's algorithm for up…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 Junpeng Zhan

This paper presents a deterministic search algorithm on complete bipartite graphs. Our algorithm adopts the simple form of alternating iterations of an oracle and a continuous-time quantum walk operator, which is a generalization of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-13 Honghong Lin , Yun Shang

Distributed quantum computing (DQC) connects many small quantum processors into a single logical machine, offering a practical route to scalable quantum computation. However, most existing DQC paradigms are structure-agnostic. Circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Yuwen Huang , Xiaojun Lin , Bin Luo , John C. S. Lui

Amplitude Amplification -- a key component of Grover's Search algorithm -- uses an iterative approach to systematically increase the probability of one or multiple target states. We present novel strategies to enhance the amplification…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Austin Gilliam , Marco Pistoia , Constantin Gonciulea

Quantum walks provide a natural framework to approach graph problems with quantum computers, exhibiting speedups over their classical counterparts for tasks such as the search for marked nodes or the prediction of missing links.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Duarte Magano , João Moutinho , Bruno Coutinho

In this survey paper we give an intuitive treatment of the discrete time quantization of classical Markov chains. Grover search and the quantum walk based search algorithms of Ambainis, Szegedy and Magniez et al. will be stated as quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-04 Miklos Santha

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

Grover's search algorithm provides a quadratic speedup over classical brute-force search in terms of query complexity and is widely used as a versatile subroutine in numerous quantum algorithms, including those for combinatorial problems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Eunok Bae , Jeonghyeon Shin , Minjin Choi

The closest pair problem is a fundamental problem of computational geometry: given a set of $n$ points in a $d$-dimensional space, find a pair with the smallest distance. A classical algorithm taught in introductory courses solves this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-07 Scott Aaronson , Nai-Hui Chia , Han-Hsuan Lin , Chunhao Wang , Ruizhe Zhang

We present a novel set of rigorous and computationally efficient topology-based complexity notions that exhibit a strong correlation with the generalization gap in modern deep neural networks (DNNs). DNNs show remarkable generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Rayna Andreeva , Benjamin Dupuis , Rik Sarkar , Tolga Birdal , Umut Şimşekli

We present new distributed quantum algorithms for fundamental distributed computing problems, namely, leader election, broadcast, Minimum Spanning Tree (MST), and Breadth-First Search (BFS) tree, in arbitrary networks. These algorithms are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Fabien Dufoulon , Frédéric Magniez , Gopal Pandurangan

Quantum computing has advanced rapidly in recent years and has shown advantages in a variety of domains. In this paper, we investigate its potential for discrete simulation optimization in the fixed-confidence setting, a fundamental problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Mingjie Hu , Jian-qiang Hu , Enlu Zhou

Spatial search is an important problem in quantum computation, which aims to find a marked vertex on a graph. We propose a novel approach for designing deterministic quantum search algorithms on a variety of graphs via alternating quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-25 Qingwen Wang , Ying Jiang , Shiguang Feng , Lvzhou Li

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

Quantum walk search may exhibit phenomena beyond the intuition from a conventional random walk theory. One of such examples is exceptional configuration phenomenon -- it appears that it may be much harder to find any of two or more marked…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Adam Glos , Nikolajs Nahimovs , Konstantin Balakirev , Kamil Khadiev

Quite often in database search, we only need to extract portion of the information about the satisfying item. Recently Radhakrishnan & Grover [RG] considered this problem in the following form: the database of $N$ items was divided into $K$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir E. Korepin , Lov K. Grover

We present a number of results related to quantum algorithms with small error probability and quantum algorithms that are zero-error. First, we give a tight analysis of the trade-offs between the number of queries of quantum search…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 H. Buhrman , R. Cleve , R. de Wolf , Ch. Zalka

Grover search algorithm drives a quantum system from an initial state to a desired final state by using selective phase inversions of these two states. In (1), we studied a generalization of Grover algorithm which relaxes the assumption of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Avatar Tulsi

Grover's algorithm is a quantum query algorithm solving the unstructured search problem of size $N$ using $O(\sqrt{N})$ queries. It provides a significant speed-up over any classical algorithm \cite{Gro96}. The running time of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-24 Dmitry Kravchenko , Nikolajs Nahimovs , Alexander Rivosh

The quantum SearchRank algorithm is a promising tool for a future quantum search engine based on PageRank quantization. However, this algorithm loses its functionality when the $N/M$ ratio between the network size $N$ and the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Sergio A. Ortega , Miguel A. Martin-Delgado