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We initiate a systematic study of the time complexity of quantum divide and conquer algorithms for classical problems. We establish generic conditions under which search and minimization problems with classical divide and conquer algorithms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Jonathan Allcock , Jinge Bao , Aleksandrs Belovs , Troy Lee , Miklos Santha

In this paper we will present a quantum algorithm which works very efficiently in case of multiple matches within the search space and in the case of few matches, the algorithm performs classically. This allows us to propose a hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-06 Ahmed Younes , Jon Rowe , Julian Miller

The optimal runtime of a quantum computer searching a database is typically cited as the square root of the number of items in the database, which is famously achieved by Grover's algorithm. With parallel oracles, however, it is possible to…

Complexity of a quantum analogue of the satisfiability problem is studied. Quantum k-SAT is a problem of verifying whether there exists n-qubit pure state such that its k-qubit reduced density matrices have support on prescribed subspaces.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergey Bravyi

Despite the promise that fault-tolerant quantum computers can efficiently solve classically intractable problems, it remains a major challenge to find quantum algorithms that may reach computational advantage in the present era of noisy,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-13 Miguel Murça , Duarte Magano , Yasser Omar

Randomized algorithms for deciding satisfiability were shown to be effective in solving problems with thousands of variables. However, these algorithms are not complete. That is, they provide no guarantee that a satisfying assignment, if…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Deborah East , Miroslaw Truszczynski

Mutual coherence is a measure of similarity between two opinions. Although the notion comes from philosophy, it is essential for a wide range of technologies, e.g., the Wahl-O-Mat system. In Germany, this system helps voters to find…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Gregor Betz , Vera Chekan , Tamara Mchedlidze

Since Grover's seminal work, quantum search has been studied in great detail. In the usual search problem, we have a collection of n items and we would like to find a marked item. We consider a new variant of this problem in which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andris Ambainis

Major players in the global aerospace industry are shifting their focus toward achieving net carbon-neutral operations by 2050. A considerable portion of the overall carbon emission reduction is expected to come from new aircraft…

In this paper we propose the approach for constructing partitionings of hard variants of the Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT). Such partitionings can be used for solving corresponding SAT instances in parallel. For the same SAT instance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-10-23 Alexander Semenov , Oleg Zaikin

This paper presents a detailed analysis of the scalability and parallelization of local search algorithms for the Satisfiability problem. We propose a framework to estimate the parallel performance of a given algorithm by analyzing the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Alejandro Arbelaez , Charlotte Truchet , Philippe Codognet

We introduce SamBa-GQW, a novel quantum algorithm for solving binary combinatorial optimization problems of arbitrary degree with no use of any classical optimizer. The algorithm is based on a continuous-time quantum walk on the solution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Ugo Nzongani , Dylan Laplace Mermoud , Giuseppe Di Molfetta , Andrea Simonetto

In the past decade, many parameterized algorithms were developed for packing problems. Our goal is to obtain tradeoffs that improve the running times of these algorithms at the cost of computing approximate solutions. Consider a packing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Meirav Zehavi

Ordinary approach to quantum algorithm is based on quantum Turing machine or quantum circuits. It is known that this approach is not powerful enough to solve NP-complete problems. In this paper we study a new approach to quantum algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Masanori Ohya , Igor V. Volovich

We introduce an iterative method to search for time-optimal Hamiltonians that drive a quantum system between two arbitrary, and in general mixed, quantum states. The method is based on the idea of progressively improving the efficiency of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Francesco Campaioli , William Sloan , Kavan Modi , Felix Alexander Pollock

In this paper we combine the k-means and/or k-means type algorithms with a hill climbing algorithm in stages to solve the joint stratification and sample allocation problem. This is a combinatorial optimisation problem in which we search…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-08-19 Mervyn O'Luing , Steven Prestwich , S. Armagan Tarim

An efficient quantum algorithm is proposed to solve in polynomial time the parity problem, one of the hardest problems both in conventional quantum computation and in classical computation, on NMR quantum computers. It is based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xijia Miao

Quantum algorithms have demonstrated provable speedups over classical counterparts, yet establishing a comprehensive theoretical framework to understand the quantum advantage remains a core challenge. In this work, we decode the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Si-Qi Zhou , Jin-Min Liang , Ziheng Ding , Zhihua Chen , Shao-Ming Fei , Zhihao Ma

We study the complexity of quantum query algorithms that make p queries in parallel in each timestep. This model is in part motivated by the fact that decoherence times of qubits are typically small, so it makes sense to parallelize quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-24 Stacey Jeffery , Frederic Magniez , Ronald de Wolf

We propose a quantum algorithm for solving combinatorial search problems that uses only a sequence of measurements. The algorithm is similar in spirit to quantum computation by adiabatic evolution, in that the goal is to remain in the…