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Shenvi, Kempe and Whaley's quantum random-walk search (SKW) algorithm [Phys. Rev. A 67, 052307 (2003)] is known to require $O(\sqrt N)$ number of oracle queries to find the marked element, where $N$ is the size of the search space. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-20 V. Potocek , A. Gabris , T. Kiss , I. Jex

In this tutorial, which contains some original results, we bridge the fields of quantum computing algorithms, conservation laws, and many-body quantum systems by examining three algorithms for searching an unordered database of size $N$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 David A. Meyer , Thomas G. Wong

Quantum search is a quantum mechanical technique for searching N possibilities in only sqrt(N) steps. This has been proved to be the best possible algorithm for the exhuastive search problem in the sense the number of queries it requires…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Lov K. Grover

Quantum walks have been very successful in the development of search algorithms in quantum information, in particular in the development of spatial search algorithms. However, the construction of continuous-time quantum search algorithms in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-02 Iain Foulger , Sven Gnutzmann , Gregor Tanner

This paper shows that a quantum mechanical algorithm that can query information relating to multiple items of the database, can search a database in a single query (a query is defined as any question to the database to which the database…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Lov K. Grover

In this paper, we present a novel formulation of traditional sampling-based motion planners as database-oracle structures that can be solved via quantum search algorithms. We consider two complementary scenarios: for simpler sparse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Paul Lathrop , Beth Boardman , Sonia Martínez

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

The search of an unstructured database amounts to finding one element having a certain property out of $N$ elements. The classical search with an oracle checking one element at a time requires on average $N/2$ steps. The Grover algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Armen E. Allahverdyan , David Petrosyan

We investigate a set of discrete-time quantum search algorithms on the n-dimensional hypercube following a proposal by Shenvi, Kempe and Whaley. We show that there exists a whole class of quantum search algorithms in the symmetry reduced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-24 Birgit Hein , Gregor Tanner

Quantum partial search algorithm is approximate search. It aims to find a target block (which has the target items). It runs a little faster than full Grover search. In this paper, we consider quantum partial search algorithm for multiple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-11 Kun Zhang , Vladimir Korepin

In this paper, we analyze the potential for new types of searches using the formalism of scattering random walks on Quantum Computers. Given a particular type of graph consisting of nodes and connections, a "Tree Maze", we would like to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Daniel Koch , Mark Hillery

We study the random m-ary search tree model (where m stands for the number of branches of a search tree), an important problem for data storage in computer science, using a variety of statistical physics techniques that allow us to obtain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Satya N. Majumdar , David S. Dean , P. L. Krapivsky

We study the quantum walk search algorithm of Shenvi, Kempe and Whaley [PRA 67 052307 (2003)] on data structures of one to two spatial dimensions, on which the algorithm is thought to be less efficient than in three or more spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-25 Neil B. Lovett , Matthew Everitt , Matthew Trevers , Daniel Mosby , Dan Stockton , Viv Kendon

This paper researches how the systematic errors in phase inversions affect the success rate and the number of iterations in optimized quantum random-walk search algorithm. Through geometric description of this algorithm, the model of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-12 Yu-Chao Zhang , Wan-Su Bao , Xiang Wang , Xiang-Qun Fu

We numerically study the quantum walk search algorithm of Shenvi, Kempe and Whaley [PRA \textbf{67} 052307] and the factors which affect its efficiency in finding an individual state from an unsorted set. Previous work has focused purely on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Neil B. Lovett , Matthew Everitt , Robert M. Heath , Viv Kendon

Data intensive applications on clusters often require requests quickly be sent to the node managing the desired data. In many applications, one must look through a sorted tree structure to determine the responsible node for accessing or…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Xiaoqin Ma , Gene Cooperman

The standard quantum search lacks a feature, enjoyed by many classical algorithms, of having a fixed point, i.e. monotonic convergence towards the solution. Recently a fixed point quantum search algorithm has been discovered, referred to as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tathagat Tulsi , Lov Grover , Apoorva Patel

Quantum mechanical search induces polynomial speed up in an unsorted database search process. In case of classical linear search the computational time increases with the dimensionality of the query. However, quantum parallelism, inherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-30 Arti Chamoli , Samina S. Masood

We introduce an algorithm for combinatorial search on quantum computers that is capable of significantly concentrating amplitude into solutions for some NP search problems, on average. This is done by exploiting the same aspects of problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tad Hogg

We introduce an algorithm for combinatorial search on quantum computers that is capable of significantly concentrating amplitude into solutions for some NP search problems, on average. This is done by exploiting the same aspects of problem…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-09-25 T. Hogg