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In this paper, we relate the problem of finding a maximum clique to the intersection number of the input graph (i.e. the minimum number of cliques needed to edge cover the graph). In particular, we consider the maximum clique problem for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-04-19 S. Nikoletseas , C. Raptopoulos , P. G. Spirakis

Quantum adiabatic evolution provides a general technique for the solution of combinatorial search problems on quantum computers. We present the results of a numerical study of a particular application of quantum adiabatic evolution, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-20 Andrew M. Childs , Edward Farhi , Jeffrey Goldstone , Sam Gutmann

In this dissertation we demonstrate that the continuous-time quantum walk models remain powerful for nontrivial graph structures. We consider two aspects of this problem. First, it is known that the standard Continuous-Time Quantum Walk…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-28 Adam Glos

We present a highly efficient quantum circuit for performing continuous time quantum walks (CTQWs) over an exponentially large set of combinatorial objects, provided that the objects can be indexed efficiently. CTQWs form the core mixing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-17 Samuel Marsh , Jingbo Wang

This paper introduces in detail a non-variational quantum algorithm designed to solve a wide range of combinatorial optimisation problems, including constrained problems and problems with non-binary variables. The algorithm returns optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-14 Tavis Bennett , Lyle Noakes , Jingbo B. Wang

We propose a fast, parallel maximum clique algorithm for large sparse graphs that is designed to exploit characteristics of social and information networks. The method exhibits a roughly linear runtime scaling over real-world networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-12-30 Ryan A. Rossi , David F. Gleich , Assefaw H. Gebremedhin , Md. Mostofa Ali Patwary

The random walk formalism is used across a wide range of applications, from modelling share prices to predicting population genetics. Likewise quantum walks have shown much potential as a frame- work for developing new quantum algorithms.…

The maximum clique problem (MCP) is to find the largest complete subgraph in an undirected graph, that is, the subgraph in which there are edges between every two different vertices. It is an NP-Hard problem with wide applications,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Wenmin Han , Shiqi Zheng , Peian Chen , Yukun Wang

Quantum walk is a potent technique for building quantum algorithms. This paper examines the quantum walk search algorithm on complete multipartite graphs with multiple marked vertices, which has not been explored before. Two specific cases…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Ningxiang Chen , Meng Li , Xiaoming Sun

Clique problem has a wide range of applications due to its pattern matching ability. There are various formulation of clique problem like $k$-clique problem, maximum clique problem, etc. The $k$-Clique problem, determines whether an…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Arpita Sanyal , Amit Saha , Banani Saha , Amlan Chakrabarti

In the present paper, we study the continuous-time quantum walk on quotient graphs. On such graphs, there is a straightforward reduction of problem to a subspace that can be considerably smaller than the original one. Along the lines of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-23 S. Salimi

We present a theoretical framework for the analysis of amplitude transfer in Quantum Variational Algorithms (QVAs) for combinatorial optimisation with mixing unitaries defined by vertex-transitive graphs, based on their continuous-time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-24 Edric Matwiejew , Jingbo B. Wang

Multiple interval graphs are variants of interval graphs where instead of a single interval, each vertex is assigned a set of intervals on the real line. We study the complexity of the MAXIMUM CLIQUE problem in several classes of multiple…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-03-12 Mathew C. Francis , Daniel Gonçalves , Pascal Ochem

In this paper, we consider continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs) on one-dimension ring lattice of N nodes in which every node is connected to its 2m nearest neighbors (m on either side). In the framework of the Bloch function ansatz, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xinping Xu , Feng Liu

This manuscript provides a comprehensive review of the Maximum Clique Problem, a computational problem that involves finding subsets of vertices in a graph that are all pairwise adjacent to each other. The manuscript covers in a simple way…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Raffaele Marino , Lorenzo Buffoni , Bogdan Zavalnij

Quantum-circuit implementations of continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs) can provide an efficient route to model graph-based algorithms. However, constructing circuits that faithfully reproduce CTQW dynamics across arbitrary graphs remains…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Sabyasachi Chakraborty , Rohit Sarma Sarkar , Sonjoy Majumder , Rohit Kishan Ray

The Maximum Matching problem has a quantum query complexity lower bound of $\Omega(n^{3/2})$ for graphs on $n$ vertices represented by an adjacency matrix. The current best quantum algorithm has the query complexity $O(n^{7/4})$, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Alcides Gomes Andrade Júnior , Akira Matsubayashi

In this paper, we provide polynomial-time algorithms for different extensions of the matching counting problem, namely maximal matchings, path matchings (linear forest) and paths, on graph classes of bounded clique-width. For maximal…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Benjamin Hellouin de Menibus , Takeaki Uno

Quantum walks play an important role in the area of quantum algorithms. Many interesting problems can be reduced to searching marked states in a quantum Markov chain. In this context, the notion of quantum hitting time is very important,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-08 R. A. M. Santos , R. Portugal

Link streams offer a good model for representing interactions over time. They consist of links $(b,e,u,v)$, where $u$ and $v$ are vertices interacting during the whole time interval $[b,e]$. In this paper, we deal with the problem of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Alexis Baudin , Clémence Magnien , Lionel Tabourier