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As large language models (LLMs) demonstrate outstanding performance across various tasks, attention-driven models have profoundly transformed the field of machine learning. Since attention computations account for the primary computational…

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Quantum computing is a fascinating interdisciplinary research field that promises to revolutionize computing by efficiently solving previously intractable problems. Recent years have seen tremendous progress on both the experimental…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-04 Julian Berberich , Daniel Fink

Given two sets A and B and two oracles O(A) and O(B) that can identify the elements of these sets respectively, the goal is to find an element common to both sets using minimum number of oracle queries. Each application of either O(A) or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-18 Avatar Tulsi

In 1998, Brassard, Hoyer, Mosca, and Tapp (BHMT) gave a quantum algorithm for approximate counting. Given a list of $N$ items, $K$ of them marked, their algorithm estimates $K$ to within relative error $\varepsilon$ by making only $O\left(…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-05 Scott Aaronson , Patrick Rall

There are many falsely intuitive introductions to quantum theory and quantum computation in a handwave. There are also numerous documents which teach those subjects in a mathematically sound manner. To my knowledge this paper is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-25 Pablo Arrighi

Quantum computers require quantum arithmetic. We provide an explicit construction of quantum networks effecting basic arithmetic operations: from addition to modular exponentiation. Quantum modular exponentiation seems to be the most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 V. Vedral , A. Barenco , A. Ekert

This is a short introduction to quantum computers, quantum algorithms and quantum error correcting codes. Familiarity with the principles of quantum theory is assumed. Emphasis is put on a concise presentation of the principles avoiding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christof Zalka

Constraint satisfiability problems, crucial to several applications, are solved on a quantum computer using Grover's search algorithm, leading to a quadratic improvement over the classical case. The solutions are obtained with high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 Gayathree M. Vinod , Anil Shaji

Quantum search algorithms are considered in the context of protein sequence comparison in biocomputing. Given a sample protein sequence of length m (i.e m residues), the problem considered is to find an optimal match in a large database…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

We report the experimental implementation of Grover's quantum search algorithm on a quantum computer with three quantum bits. The computer consists of molecules of $^{13}$C-labeled CHFBr$_2$, in which the three weakly coupled spin-1/2…

Quantum query complexity is a fundamental model for analyzing the computational power of quantum algorithms. It has played a key role in characterizing quantum speedups, from early breakthroughs such as Grover's and Simon's algorithms to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Yassine Hamoudi

One of the significant breakthroughs in quantum computation is Grover's algorithm for unsorted database search. Recently, the applications of Grover's algorithm to solve global optimization problems have been demonstrated, where unknown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Yan Wang

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 study the problem of learning an unknown graph provided via an oracle using a quantum algorithm. We consider three query models. In the first model ("OR queries"), the oracle returns whether a given subset of the vertices contains any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 Ashley Montanaro , Changpeng Shao

A brief review is given of the physical implementation of quantum computation within spin systems or other two-state quantum systems. The importance of the controlled-NOT or quantum XOR gate as the fundamental primitive operation of quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 David P. DiVincenzo

In this article, we present an introduction to quantum computing (QC) tailored for computing professionals such as programmers, machine learning engineers, and data scientists. Our approach abstracts away the physics underlying QC, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 M M Hassan Mahmud , Daniel Goldsmith

We present a dynamic learning paradigm for "programming" a general quantum computer. A learning algorithm is used to find the control parameters for a coupled qubit system, such that the system at an initial time evolves to a state in which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-12 E. C. Behrman , J. E. Steck , P. Kumar , K. A. Walsh

In this paper, we study the nature of entanglement in quantum Grover's and Shor's algorithms. So far, the authors who have been interested in this problem have approached the question quantitatively by introducing entanglement measures…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-25 Hamza Jaffali , Frédéric Holweck

This paper presented two general quantum search algorithms. We derived the iterated formulas and the simpler approximate formulas and the precise formula for the amplitude in the desired state. A mathematical proof of Grover's algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dafa Li , Xinxin Li

Grover's search algorithm is one of the first quantum algorithms to exhibit a provable quantum advantage. It forms the backbone of numerous quantum applications and is widely used in benchmarking efforts. Here, we report…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-10 Bibek Pokharel , Daniel Lidar