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We investigate the implementation of an oracle for the Subset Sum problem for quantum search using Grover's algorithm. Our work concerns reducing the number of qubits, gates, and multi-controlled gates required by the oracle. We describe…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Angelo Benoit , Sam Schwartz , Ron K. Cytron

An open distributed system can be secured by requiring participants to present proof of work and rewarding them for participation. The Bitcoin digital currency introduced this mechanism, which is adopted by almost all contemporary digital…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Ittay Eyal

Blockchain is a Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) that offers numerous benefits including decentralization, transparency, efficiency, and reduced costs. Hence, blockchain has been included in many fields. Blockchain relies on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Sufyan Al-Janabi

Bitcoin mining presents a significant economic incentive for efficient hashing and broadcast of data, both parameters stemming from the Proofs of Work used to advance the network. This incentive has led to the development of Bitcoin…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-03-17 Jonathan Harvey-Buschel , Can Kisagun

Grover's quantum search algorithm promises a quadratic speedup for unstructured search over its classical counterpart. But this advantage is affected by noise acting on the search space. Here, we show that a quantum switch can act as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Suryansh Srivastava , Arun K. Pati , Samyadeb Bhattacharya , Indranil Chakrabarty

Grover's algorithm achieves a quadratic speedup over classical algorithms, but it is considered necessary to know the value of $\lambda$ exactly [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 150501 (2005); Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 210501 (2014)], where $\lambda$ is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Tan Li , Wan-Su Bao , He-Liang Huang , Feng-Guang Li , Xiang-Qun Fu , Shuo Zhang , Chu Guo , Yu-Tao Du , Xiang Wang , Jie Lin

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

Generic quantum search algorithm searches for target entity in an unsorted database by repeatedly applying canonical Grover's quantum rotation transform to reach near the vicinity of the target entity represented by a basis state in the…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-02-14 Ashish Mani , C Patvardhan

The Grover search algorithm performs an unstructured search of a marked item in a database quadratically faster than classical algorithms and is shown to be optimal. Here, we show that if the search space is divided into two blocks with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Akankshya Dash , Biswaranjan Panda , Arun K Pati

Grover's search algorithms, including various partial Grover searches, experience scaling problems as the number of iterations rises with increased qubits, making implementation more computationally expensive. This paper combines Partial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-25 Debanjan Konar , Zain Hafeez , Vaneet Aggarwal

Grover's quantum search and its generalization, quantum amplitude amplification, provide quadratic advantage over classical algorithms for a diverse set of tasks, but are tricky to use without knowing beforehand what fraction $\lambda$ of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-26 Theodore J. Yoder , Guang Hao Low , Isaac L. Chuang

Grover's quantum algorithm improves any classical search algorithm. We show how random Gaussian noise at each step of the algorithm can be modelled easily because of the exact recursion formulas available for computing the quantum amplitude…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Pablo-Norman , M. Ruiz-Altaba

Quantum computer is no longer a hypothetical idea. It is the worlds most important technology and there is a race among countries to get supremacy in quantum technology. Its the technology that will reduce the computing time from years to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Manish Kumar

Despite the tremendous interest in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum today, many aspects of the underlying consensus protocols are poorly understood. Therefore, the search for protocols that improve either throughput or security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Ignacio Amores-Sesar , Christian Cachin , Anna Parker

Grover's algorithm is one of the pioneering demonstrations of the advantages of quantum computing over its classical counterpart, providing - at most - a quadratic speed-up over the classical solution for unstructured database search. The…

We operate a superconducting quantum processor consisting of two tunable transmon qubits coupled by a swapping interaction, and equipped with non destructive single-shot readout of the two qubits. With this processor, we run the Grover…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-25 A. Dewes , R. Lauro , F. R. Ong , V. Schmitt , P. Milman , P. Bertet , D. Vion , D. Esteve

Grover's algorithm solves the unstructured search problem. Grover's algorithm can find the target state with certainty only if searching one out of four. Designing the deterministic search algorithm can avoid any repetition of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Zhen Wang , Kun Zhang , Vladimir Korepin

Nonlinear boolean equation systems play an important role in a wide range of applications. Grover's algorithm is one of the best-known quantum search algorithms in solving the nonlinear boolean equation system on quantum computers. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-16 Xiang Li , Hanxiang Shen , Weiguo Gao , Yingzhou Li

The translation of Grover's search algorithm from its standard version, designed for implementation on a single quantum system amenable to projective measurements, into one suitable for an ensemble of quantum computers, whose outputs are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 David Collins

Grover's quantum search algorithm provides a quadratic quantum advantage over classical algorithms across a broad class of unstructured search problems. The original protocol is probabilistic, returning the desired result with significant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Tanay Roy , Liang Jiang , David I. Schuster