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A quantum algorithm for combinatorial search is presented that provides a simple framework for utilizing search heuristics. The algorithm is evaluated in a new case that is an unstructured version of the graph coloring problem. It performs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-06 Tad Hogg

We use a Bayesian approach to optimally solve problems in noisy binary search. We deal with two variants: 1. Each comparison can be erroneous with some probability $1 - p$. 2. At each stage $k$ comparisons can be performed in parallel and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 M. Ben-Or , Avinatan Hassidim

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,…

Grover's quantum search algorithm provides a way to speed up combinatorial search, but is not directly applicable to searching a physical database. Nevertheless, Aaronson and Ambainis showed that a database of N items laid out in d spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew M. Childs , Jeffrey Goldstone

Grover's algorithm, a well-know quantum search algorithm, allows one to find the correct item in a database, with quadratic speedup. In this paper we adapt Grover's algorithm to the problem of finding a correct answer to a natural language…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-28 A. D. Correia , M. Moortgat , H. T. C. Stoof

We construct a quantum searching model of a signed edge driven by a quantum walk. The time evolution operator of this quantum walk provides a weighted adjacency matrix induced by the assignment of sign to each edge. This sign can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Etsuo Segawa , Yusuke Yoshie

The use of superposition of states in quantum computation, known as quantum parallelism, has significant advantage in terms of speed over the classical computation. It can be understood from the early invented quantum algorithms such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-17 Pulak Ranjan Giri , Vladimir E. Korepin

Quantum searching for one of $N$ marked items in an unsorted database of $n$ items is solved in $\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{n/N})$ steps using Grover's algorithm. Using nonlinear quantum dynamics with a Gross-Pitaevskii type quadratic nonlinearity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 K. de Lacy , L. Noakes

Modelling and predicting protein configurations is crucial for advancing drug discovery, enabling the design of treatments for life-threatening diseases. A critical aspect of this challenge is rotamer optimisation - the determination of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Anastasia Agathangelou , Dilhan Manawadu , Ivano Tavernelli

Grover's algorithm provides a quadratic speedup over classical algorithms for searching unstructured databases and is known to be strictly optimal in oracle query complexity, with tight bounds on its success probability. Although the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Yan-Bo Jiang , Xiao-Hui Wang , Kun Zhang , Vladimir Korepin

This paper introduces a new Boolean-based methodology for constructing Segment Display Problems (SDPs) in the quantum domain and solving them using Grover's quantum search algorithm. In the classical domain, the SDPs are typically solved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Shanyan Chen , Ali Al-Bayaty , Xiaoyu Song , Marek Perkowski

We introduce an algorithm for the alignment of protein- coding sequences accounting for frameshifts. The main specificity of this algorithm as compared to previously published protein-coding sequence alignment methods is the introduction of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-21 François Bélanger , Aïda Ouangraoua

Quantum walks are at the heart of modern quantum technologies. They allow to deal with quantum transport phenomena and are an advanced tool for constructing novel quantum algorithms. Quantum walks on graphs are fundamentally different from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Alexey A. Melnikov , Leonid E. Fedichkin , Alexander Alodjants

We develop a new class of genetic algorithm that computationally determines efficient pulse sequences to implement a quantum gate U in a three-qubit system. The method is shown to be quite general, and the same algorithm can be used to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-04 Ashok Ajoy , Anil Kumar

Quantum support vector machines have the potential to achieve a quantum speedup for solving certain machine learning problems. The key challenge for doing so is finding good quantum kernels for a given data set -- a task called kernel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-08 Gian Gentinetta , David Sutter , Christa Zoufal , Bryce Fuller , Stefan Woerner

We introduce a new distributed algorithm for aligning graphs or finding substructures within a given graph. It is based on the cavity method and is used to study the maximum-clique and the graph-alignment problems in random graphs. The…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2010-04-02 S. Bradde , A. Braunstein , H. Mahmoudi , F. Tria , M. Weigt , R. Zecchina

Grover's algorithm solves the unstructured search problem. Grover's algorithm can find the target state with certainty only if searching one out of four. Designing the deterministic search algorithm can avoid any repetition of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Zhen Wang , Kun Zhang , Vladimir Korepin

Grover's algorithm constitutes the optimal quantum solution to the search problem and provides a quadratic speed-up over all possible classical search algorithms. Quantum interference between computational paths has been posited as a key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-11 Ciarán M. Lee , John H. Selby

We investigate quantum algorithms for classification, a fundamental problem in machine learning, with provable guarantees. Given $n$ $d$-dimensional data points, the state-of-the-art (and optimal) classical algorithm for training…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-28 Tongyang Li , Shouvanik Chakrabarti , Xiaodi Wu

Solving linear systems of equations is ubiquitous in all areas of science and engineering. With rapidly growing data sets, such a task can be intractable for classical computers, as the best known classical algorithms require a time…