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Grover's quantum search algorithm is considered as one of the milestone in the field of quantum computing. The algorithm can search for a single match in a database with $N$ records in $O(\sqrt{N})$ assuming that the item must exist in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-01 Ahmed Younes

The Fr\'echet distance is a commonly used distance measure for curves. Computing the Fr\'echet distance between two polygonal curves of $n$ vertices takes roughly quadratic time, and conditional lower bounds suggest that approximating to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Thijs van der Horst , Marc van Kreveld , Tim Ophelders , Bettina Speckmann

We present two new quantum algorithms that either find a triangle (a copy of $K_{3}$) in an undirected graph $G$ on $n$ nodes, or reject if $G$ is triangle free. The first algorithm uses combinatorial ideas with Grover Search and makes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frederic Magniez , Miklos Santha , Mario Szegedy

In the range closest pair problem, we want to construct a data structure storing a set $S$ of $n$ points in the plane, such that for any axes-parallel query rectangle $R$, the closest pair in the set $R \cap S$ can be reported. The…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Sang Won Bae , Michiel Smid

There has been increasing interest in developing efficient quantum algorithms for hard classical problems. The Network Signal Coordination (NSC) problem is one such problem known to be NP complete. We implement Grover's search algorithm to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Vinayak Dixit , Richard Pech

Approximate Pattern Matching is among the most fundamental string-processing tasks. Given a text $T$ of length $n$, a pattern $P$ of length $m$, and a threshold $k$, the task is to identify the fragments of $T$ that are at distance at most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Tomasz Kociumaka , Jakob Nogler , Philip Wellnitz

Knapsack is one of the most fundamental problems in theoretical computer science. In the $(1 - \epsilon)$-approximation setting, although there is a fine-grained lower bound of $(n + 1 / \epsilon) ^ {2 - o(1)}$ based on the $(\min,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xiao Mao

We explore potential quantum speedups for the fundamental problem of testing the properties of closeness and $k$-wise uniformity of probability distributions. Closeness testing is the problem of distinguishing whether two $n$-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-27 Jingquan Luo , Qisheng Wang , Lvzhou Li

The Fr\'echet distance is a well-studied and very popular measure of similarity of two curves. The best known algorithms have quadratic time complexity, which has recently been shown to be optimal assuming the Strong Exponential Time…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-08-07 Karl Bringmann , Marvin Künnemann

Neighbor search is a computationally demanding problem, usually both time- and memory-consuming. The main problem of this kind of algorithms is the long execution time due to cache misses. In this work, we propose a quantum algorithm for…

Grover Search is currently one of the main quantum algorithms leading to hybrid quantum-classical methods that reduce the worst-case time complexity for some combinatorial optimization problems. Specifically, the combination of Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Camille Grange , Michael Poss , Eric Bourreau , Vincent T'kindt , Olivier Ploton

The Fr\'echet distance is a popular similarity measure that is well-understood for polygonal curves in $\mathbb{R}^d$: near-quadratic time algorithms exist, and conditional lower bounds suggest that these results cannot be improved…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Thijs van der Horst , Marc van Kreveld , Tim Ophelders , Bettina Speckmann

We propose a new finding $k$-minima algorithm and prove that its query complexity is $\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{kN})$, where $N$ is the number of data indices. Though the complexity is equivalent to that of an existing method, the proposed is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-09 Kohei Miyamoto , Masakazu Iwamura , Koichi Kise

Many computational problems are subject to a quantum speed-up: one might find that a problem having an O(n^3)-time or O(n^2)-time classic algorithm can be solved by a known O(n^1.5)-time or O(n)-time quantum algorithm. The question…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-22 Harry Buhrman , Bruno Loff , Subhasree Patro , Florian Speelman

Quantum contextuality is a limitation on deterministic hidden variable models, testable in measurement scenarios where outcomes differ under quantum or classical descriptions due to a common set of constraints. When considering measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Colm Kelleher , Frédéric Holweck

Computing all-pairs shortest paths is a fundamental and much-studied problem with many applications. Unfortunately, despite intense study, there are still no significantly faster algorithms for it than the $\mathcal{O}(n^3)$ time algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Stefan Kratsch , Florian Nelles

In this paper we study quantum algorithms for NP-complete problems whose best classical algorithm is an exponential time application of dynamic programming. We introduce the path in the hypercube problem that models many of these dynamic…

We study the Closest Pair Problem in Hamming metric, which asks to find the pair with the smallest Hamming distance in a collection of binary vectors. We give a new randomized algorithm for the problem on uniformly random input…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Andre Esser , Robert Kübler , Floyd Zweydinger

Given an undirected, weighted graph, with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, and two special vertices $s$ and $t$, the problem is to find the shortest path between them. We give two bounded-error quantum algorithms with improved runtime in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Adam Wesołowski , Stephen Piddock

The minimum cut problem in an undirected and weighted graph $G$ is to find the minimum total weight of a set of edges whose removal disconnects $G$. We completely characterize the quantum query and time complexity of the minimum cut problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-25 Simon Apers , Troy Lee