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We present a quantum algorithmic routine that extends the realm of Grover-based heuristics for tackling combinatorial optimization problems with arbitrary efficiently computable objective and constraint functions. Building on previously…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Sören Wilkening

Grover's search algorithm has attracted great attention due to its quadratic speedup over classical algorithms in unsorted database search problems. However, Grover's algorithm is inefficient in multi-target search problems, except in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Shijin Zhong , Wei Li , Guangzhen Dai , Daohua Wu

Searching large databases is an important problem with broad applications. The Grover search algorithm provides a powerful method for quantum computers to perform searches with a quadratic speedup in the number of required database queries…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-05 C. Figgatt , D. Maslov , K. A. Landsman , N. M. Linke , S. Debnath , C. Monroe

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

We investigate the generalisation of quantum search of unstructured and totally ordered sets to search of partially ordered sets (posets). Two models for poset search are considered. In both models, we show that quantum algorithms can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-18 Ashley Montanaro

Database search has wide applications and is used as a subroutine in many important algorithms. We shall consider a database with one target item. Quantum algorithm finds the target item in a database faster than any classical algorithm. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vladimir Korepin , Ying Xu

In a recent paper (quant-ph/0506105), A S Gupta, M. Gupta and A. Pathak proposed a modified Grover algorithm that would exponentially accelerate the unsorted database search problem if the number of marked items is known. If this were true,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gui Lu Long

Finding a maximum or minimum is a fundamental building block in many mathematical models. Compared with classical algorithms, Durr, Hoyer's quantum algorithm (DHA) achieves quadratic speed. However, its key step, the quantum exponential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-22 Yanhu Chen , Shijie Wei , Xiong Gao , Cen Wang , Jian Wu , Hongxiang Guo

A quantum algorithm for general combinatorial search that uses the underlying structure of the search space to increase the probability of finding a solution is presented. This algorithm shows how coherent quantum systems can be matched to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Tad Hogg

It was recently emphasized by Byrnes, Forster, and Tessler [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 060501 (2018)] that the continuous-time formulation of Grover's quantum search algorithm can be intuitively understood in terms of Rabi oscillations between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-08 Carlo Cafaro , Paul M. Alsing

The quantum search algorithm is a technique for searching N possibilities in only sqrt(N) steps. Although the algorithm itself is widely known, not so well known is the series of steps that first led to it, these are quite different from…

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

The quantum adiabatic unstructured search algorithm is one of only a handful of quantum adiabatic optimization algorithms to exhibit provable speedups over their classical counterparts. With no fault tolerance theorems to guarantee the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 Mikhail Slutskii , Tameem Albash , Lev Barash , Itay Hen

Quantum algorithms use the principles of quantum mechanics, as for example quantum superposition, in order to solve particular problems outperforming standard computation. They are developed for cryptography, searching, optimisation,…

We report the implementation of Grover's quantum search algorithm in the scalable system of trapped atomic ion quantum bits. Any one of four possible states of a two-qubit memory is marked, and following a single query of the search space,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. -A. Brickman , P. C. Haljan , P. J. Lee , M. Acton , L. Deslauriers , C. Monroe

Quantum algorithms and circuits can, in principle, outperform the best non-quantum (classical) techniques for some hard computational problems. However, this does not necessarily lead to useful applications. To gauge the practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 George F. Viamontes , Igor L. Markov , John P. Hayes

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

Given an item and a list of values of size $N$. It is required to decide if such item exists in the list. Classical computer can search for the item in O(N). The best known quantum algorithm can do the job in $O(\sqrt{N})$. In this paper, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-27 Ahmed Younes

It has recently been shown that starting with a classical query algorithm (decision tree) and a guessing algorithm that tries to predict the query answers, we can design a quantum algorithm with query complexity $O(\sqrt{GT})$ where $T$ is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Salman Beigi , Leila Taghavi , Artin Tajdini

We show that quantum search can be used to compute the hardness to round an elementary function, that is, to determine the minimum working precision required to compute the values of an elementary function correctly rounded to a target…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Stefanos Kourtis

A quantum algorithm is known that solves an unstructured search problem in a number of iterations of order $\sqrt{d}$, where $d$ is the dimension of the search space, whereas any classical algorithm necessarily scales as $O(d)$. It is shown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. J. Cerf , L. K. Grover , C. P. Williams