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Grover's algorithm has achieved great success. But quantum search algorithms still are not complete algorithms because of Grover's Oracle. We concerned on this problem and present a new quantum search algorithm in adiabatic model without…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Nanyang Xu , Jin Zhu , Xinhua Peng , Xianyi Zhou , Jiangfeng Du

We analyze three different quantum search algorithms, the traditional Grover's algorithm, its continuous-time analogue by Hamiltonian evolution, and finally the quantum search by local adiabatic evolution. We show that they are closely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Roland , N. J. Cerf

A quantum computer encodes information in quantum states and runs quantum algorithms to surpass the classical counterparts by exploiting quantum superposition and quantum correlation. Grover's quantum search algorithm is a typical quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Yutong Huang , Shengshi Pang

An attempt has been made in this paper to modify Grover's Algorithm to find the binary string solutions approximating a target cost value. In that direction, new Controlled Oracle and the Local Diffusion Operator are suggested, apart from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-22 Sayantan Pramanik , M Girish Chandra , Shampa Sarkar , Manoj Nambiar

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

In this paper, we study Grover's search algorithm focusing on continuous-time quantum walk on graphs. We propose an alternative optimization approach to Grover's algorithm on graphs that can be summarized as follows: instead of finding…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-07-06 Gamal Mograby , Radhakrishnan Balu , Kasso A. Okoudjou , Alexander Teplyaev

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) requires considered optimization problems to be translated into a compatible format. A popular transformation step in this pipeline involves the quadratization of higher-order binary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Damian Rovara , Lukas Burgholzer , Robert Wille

Transportation systems such as urban logistics, vehicle routing, and infrastructure planning require solving large-scale combinatorial optimization problems under complex constraints. Problems such as the vehicle routing problem (VRP),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Talha Azfar , Ruimin Ke , Sean He , Cara Wang , José Holguín-Veras

We comparatively study, through large-scale numerical simulation, the performance across a large set of Quantum Alternating Operator Ansatz (QAOA) implementations for finding approximate and optimum solutions to unconstrained combinatorial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-07 John Golden , Andreas Bärtschi , Daniel O'Malley , Stephan Eidenbenz

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a leading approach for combinatorial optimization on near-term quantum devices, yet its scalability is limited by the difficulty of optimizing \(2p\) variational parameters for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Ugo Nzongani , Dylan Laplace Mermoud , Arthur Braida

The study of quantum computation has been motivated by the hope of finding efficient quantum algorithms for solving classically hard problems. In this context, quantum algorithms by local adiabatic evolution have been shown to solve an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jérémie Roland , Nicolas J. Cerf

The recently proposed QAOA-GPT framework demonstrated that generative pre-trained transformers can learn mappings between problem graphs and optimized quantum circuits for the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA). In this work,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Leanto Sunny , Abhinav Rijal , George Siopsis

The landmark Grover algorithm for amplitude amplification serves as an essential subroutine in various type of quantum algorithms, with guaranteed quantum speedup in query complexity. However, there have been no proposal to realize the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-28 Hiroyuki Tezuka , Kouhei Nakaji , Takahiko Satoh , Naoki Yamamoto

We present the first direct comparison between gate-based quantum computing (GQC) and adiabatic quantum computing (AQC) paradigms for solving the AC power flow (PF) equations. The PF problem is reformulated as a combinatorial optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Zeynab Kaseb , Matthias Moller , Peter Palensky , Pedro P. Vergara

We investigate the irreconcilability issue that raises in translating the search algorithm from the Continuous-Time Quantum Walk (CTQW) framework to the Adiabatic Quantum Computing (AQC) framework. For the AQC formulation to evolve along…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-24 Chen-Fu Chiang , Paul M. Alsing

Grover's algorithm for quantum searching is generalized to deal with arbitrary initial complex amplitude distributions. First order linear difference equations are found for the time evolution of the amplitudes of the marked and unmarked…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Eli Biham , Ofer Biham , David Biron , Markus Grassl , Daniel A. Lidar

The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is a prospective near-term quantum algorithm due to its modest circuit depth and promising benchmarks. However, an external parameter optimization required in QAOA could become a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Stefan H. Sack , Maksym Serbyn

Grover's algorithm provides a quadratic speedup over classical algorithms to search for marked elements in an unstructured database. The original algorithm is probabilistic, returning a marked element with bounded error. There are several…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 Guanzhong Li , Lvzhou Li

The Quantum Alternating Operator Ansatz (QAOA) and its predecessor, the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm, are one of the most widely used quantum algorithms for solving combinatorial optimization problems. However, as there is yet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-15 Lennart Binkowski , Gereon Koßmann , Timo Ziegler , René Schwonnek

We propose a quantum algorithm for closest pattern matching which allows us to search for as many distinct patterns as we wish in a given string (database), requiring a query function per symbol of the pattern alphabet. This represents a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Mateus , Y. Omar