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Approximation algorithms for classical constraint satisfaction problems are one of the main research areas in theoretical computer science. Here we define a natural approximation version of the QMA-complete local Hamiltonian problem and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-25 Sevag Gharibian , Julia Kempe

Estimating the eigenvalues of non-normal matrices is a foundational problem with far-reaching implications, from modeling non-Hermitian quantum systems to analyzing complex fluid dynamics. Yet, this task remains beyond the reach of standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Yukun Zhang , Yusen Wu , Xiao Yuan

Recent works on quantum algorithms for solving semidefinite optimization (SDO) problems have leveraged a quantum-mechanical interpretation of positive semidefinite matrices to develop methods that obtain quantum speedups with respect to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Brandon Augustino , Giacomo Nannicini , Tamás Terlaky , Luis Zuluaga

Demonstrating quantum advantage has been a pressing challenge in the field. Most claimed quantum speedups rely on a subroutine in which classical information can be accessed in a coherent quantum manner, which imposes a crucial constraint…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Nhat A. Nghiem

We introduce a quantum dynamic programming framework that allows us to directly extend to the quantum realm a large body of classical dynamic programming algorithms. The corresponding quantum dynamic programming algorithms retain the same…

We explore the potential for quantum speedups in convex optimization using discrete simulations of the Quantum Hamiltonian Descent (QHD) framework, as proposed by Leng et al., and establish the first rigorous query complexity bounds. We…

Along with the development of quantum technology, finding useful applications of quantum computers has been a central pursuit. Despite various quantum algorithms have been developed, many of them often require strong input assumptions,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Nhat A. Nghiem

The complexity of matrix multiplication is a central topic in computer science. While the focus has traditionally been on exact algorithms, a long line of literature also considers randomized algorithms, which return an approximate solution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Simon Apers , Arjan Cornelissen , Samson Wang

We discuss quantum algorithms that calculate numerical integrals and descriptive statistics of stochastic processes. With either of two distinct approaches, one obtains an exponential speed increase in comparison to the fastest known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel S. Abrams , Colin P. Williams

Submodular functions are set functions mapping every subset of some ground set of size $n$ into the real numbers and satisfying the diminishing returns property. Submodular minimization is an important field in discrete optimization theory…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Yassine Hamoudi , Patrick Rebentrost , Ansis Rosmanis , Miklos Santha

This paper initiates the study of quantum algorithms for matroid property problems. It is shown that quadratic quantum speedup is possible for the calculation problem of finding the girth or the number of circuits (bases, flats,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-28 Xiaowei Huang , Jingquan Luo , Lvzhou Li

Laplacian eigenmap algorithm is a typical nonlinear model for dimensionality reduction in classical machine learning. We propose an efficient quantum Laplacian eigenmap algorithm to exponentially speed up the original counterparts. In our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-04 Yiming Huang , Xiaoyu Li

Finding a Hadamard matrix of a specific order using a quantum computer can lead to a demonstration of practical quantum advantage. Earlier efforts using a quantum annealer were impeded by the limitations of the present quantum resource and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Andriyan Bayu Suksmono

Gradient descent is one of the most basic algorithms for solving continuous optimization problems. In [Jordan, PRL, 95(5):050501, 2005], Jordan proposed the first quantum algorithm for estimating gradients of functions close to linear, with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Yuxin Zhang , Changpeng Shao

We present quantum algorithms to efficiently perform discriminant analysis for dimensionality reduction and classification over an exponentially large input data set. Compared with the best-known classical algorithms, the quantum algorithms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-12 Iris Cong , Luming Duan

Quantum algorithms for estimating the eigenvalues of matrices, including the phase estimation algorithm, serve as core subroutines in a wide range of quantum algorithms, including those in quantum chemistry and quantum machine learning. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Abhijeet Alase , Salini Karuvade

We present a quantum algorithm to solve dynamic programming problems with convex value functions. For linear discrete-time systems with a $d$-dimensional state space of size $N$, the proposed algorithm outputs a quantum-mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-18 David Sutter , Giacomo Nannicini , Tobias Sutter , Stefan Woerner

We give a quantum speedup for solving the canonical semidefinite programming relaxation for binary quadratic optimization. This class of relaxations for combinatorial optimization has so far eluded quantum speedups. Our methods combine…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Fernando G. S L. Brandão , Richard Kueng , Daniel Stilck França

Quantum algorithms offer significant speedups over their classical counterparts for a variety of problems. The strongest arguments for this advantage are borne by algorithms for quantum search, quantum phase estimation, and Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 John M. Martyn , Zane M. Rossi , Andrew K. Tan , Isaac L. Chuang

Quantum computers have the potential of solving certain problems exponentially faster than classical computers. Recently, Harrow, Hassidim and Lloyd proposed a quantum algorithm for solving linear systems of equations: given an $N\times{N}$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-19 Jian Pan , Yudong Cao , Xiwei Yao , Zhaokai Li , Chenyong Ju , Xinhua Peng , Sabre Kais , Jiangfeng Du