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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

Loading classical data into quantum registers is one of the most important primitives of quantum computing. While the complexity of preparing a generic quantum state is exponential in the number of qubits, in many practical tasks the state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-02 Fereshte Mozafari , Giovanni De Micheli , Yuxiang Yang

We analyze the complexity of quantum state verification in the context of solving systems of linear equations of the form $A \vec x = \vec b$. We show that any quantum operation that verifies whether a given quantum state is within a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Rolando D. Somma , Yigit Subasi

Quantum query complexity is typically characterized in terms of XOR queries |x,y> to |x,y+f(x)> or phase queries, which ensure that even queries to non-invertible functions are unitary. When querying a permutation, another natural model is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Blake Holman , Ronak Ramachandran , Justin Yirka

We introduce a structured quantum search algorithm that leverages entanglement maps and a fixed-point method to minimize oracle query complexity in unsorted datasets. By partitioning qubits into rows based on their entanglement order, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Yash Prabhat , Snigdha Thakur , Ankur Raina

We show that given an explicit description of a multiplayer game, with a classical verifier and a constant number of players, it is QMA-hard, under randomized reductions, to distinguish between the cases when the players have a strategy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 Anand Natarajan , Thomas Vidick

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

We consider the problem of efficiently simulating random quantum states and random unitary operators, in a manner which is convincing to unbounded adversaries with black-box oracle access. This problem has previously only been considered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-17 Gorjan Alagic , Christian Majenz , Alexander Russell

We provide a new quantum algorithm that efficiently determines the quality of a least-squares fit over an exponentially large data set by building upon an algorithm for solving systems of linear equations efficiently (Harrow et al., Phys.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-10 Nathan Wiebe , Daniel Braun , Seth Lloyd

This paper explores the applications of quantum annealing (QA) and classical simulated annealing (SA) to a suite of combinatorial optimization problems in machine learning, namely feature selection, instance selection, and clustering. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Chloe Pomeroy , Aleksandar Pramov , Karishma Thakrar , Lakshmi Yendapalli

One specific subset of quantum algorithms is Grovers Ordered Search Problem (OSP), the quantum counterpart of the classical binary search algorithm, which utilizes oracle functions to produce a specified value within an ordered database.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-24 Jupinder Parmar , Saarim Rahman , Jesse Thiara

We study the power of quantum witnesses under perfect completeness. We construct a classical oracle relative to which a language lies in $\mathsf{QMA}_1$ but not in $\mathsf{QCMA}$ when the $\mathsf{QCMA}$ verifier is only allowed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 David Miloschewsky , Supartha Podder , Dorian Rudolph

Minimizing the use of CNOT gates in quantum state preparation is a crucial step in quantum compilation, as they introduce coupling constraints and more noise than single-qubit gates. Reducing the number of CNOT gates can lead to more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Hanyu Wang , Bochen Tan , Jason Cong , Giovanni De Micheli

Simon's problem plays an important role in the history of quantum algorithms, as it inspired Shor to discover the celebrated quantum algorithm solving integer factorization in polynomial time. Besides, the quantum algorithm for Simon's…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Zekun Ye , Yunqi Huang , Lvzhou Li , Yuyi Wang

This paper presents a complete algorithmic study of the decision Boolean Satisfiability Problem under the classical computation and quantum computation theories. The paper depicts deterministic and probabilistic algorithms, propositions of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Carlos Barrón-Romero

It is a long-standing open question in quantum complexity theory whether the definition of $\textit{non-deterministic}$ quantum computation requires quantum witnesses $(\textsf{QMA})$ or if classical witnesses suffice $(\textsf{QCMA})$. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Anand Natarajan , Chinmay Nirkhe

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

Quantum algorithms can be analyzed in a query model to compute Boolean functions where input is given in a black box and the aim is to compute function value for arbitrary input using as few queries as possible. We concentrate on quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-23 Alina Vasilieva

It has been shown that the apparent advantage of some quantum machine learning algorithms may be efficiently replicated using classical algorithms with suitable data access -- a process known as dequantization. Existing works on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-07 Jordan Cotler , Hsin-Yuan Huang , Jarrod R. McClean

We examine how amplitude noise in queries to the oracle degrades a performance of quantum search algorithm. The Grover search and similar techniques are widely used in various quantum algorithms, including cases where rival parties are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-26 Alexey E. Rastegin , Anzhelika M. Shemet