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Recently, the idea of classical Metropolis sampling through Markov chains has been generalized for quantum Hamiltonians. However, the underlying Markov chain of this algorithm is still classical in nature. Due to Szegedy's method, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-07 Man-Hong Yung , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

We present a quantum algorithm for sampling random spanning trees from a weighted graph in $\widetilde{O}(\sqrt{mn})$ time, where $n$ and $m$ denote the number of vertices and edges, respectively. Our algorithm has sublinear runtime for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Simon Apers , Minbo Gao , Zhengfeng Ji , Chenghua Liu

This work presents Quantum Adaptive Search (QAGS), a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for the global optimization of multivariate functions. The method employs an adaptive mechanism that dynamically narrows the search space based on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 G. Intoccia , U. Chirico , V. Schiano Di Cola , G. Pepe , S. Cuomo

In typical discrete-time quantum walk algorithms, one measures the position of the walker while ignoring its internal spin/coin state. Rather than neglecting the information in this internal state, we show that additionally measuring it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-20 Krišjānis Prūsis , Jevgēnijs Vihrovs , Thomas G. Wong

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

Quantum search has emerged as one of the most promising fields in quantum computing. State-of-the-art quantum search algorithms enable the search for specific elements in a distribution by monotonically increasing the density of these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Rodolphe Griset , Ioannis Lavdas , Jiri Guth Jarkovsky

Quantum computing has the potential to solve complex problems faster and more efficiently than classical computing. It can achieve speedups by leveraging quantum phenomena like superposition, entanglement, and tunneling. Quantum walks (QWs)…

A quantum particle evolving by Schr\"odinger's equation in discrete space constitutes a continuous-time quantum walk on a graph of vertices and edges. When a vertex is marked by an oracle, the quantum walk effects a quantum search…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 Jonas Duda , Thomas G. Wong

Universal quantum computation can be realised using both continuous-time and discrete-time quantum walks. We present a version based on single particle discrete-time quantum walk to realize multi-qubit computation tasks. The scalability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Prateek Chawla , Shivani Singh , Aman Agarwal , Sarvesh Srinivasan , C. M. Chandrashekar

Hitting the exit node from the entrance node faster on a graph is one of the properties that quantum walk algorithms can take advantage of to outperform classical random walk algorithms. Especially, continuous-time quantum walks on…

The enormous successes have been made by quantum algorithms during the last decade. In this paper, we combine the quantum random walk (QRW) with the problem of data clustering, and develop two clustering algorithms based on the one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2008-12-09 Qiang Li , Yan He , Jing-ping Jiang

Quantum walks provide a natural framework to approach graph problems with quantum computers, exhibiting speedups over their classical counterparts for tasks such as the search for marked nodes or the prediction of missing links.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Duarte Magano , João Moutinho , Bruno Coutinho

We propose a novel heuristic quantum algorithm for the Minimum Vertex Cover (MVC) problem based on continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs). In this framework, the coherent propagation of a quantum walker over a graph encodes its structural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 F. S. Luiz , A. K. F. Iwakami , D. H. Moraes , M. C. de Oliveira

There has been a very large body of research on searching a marked vertex on a graph based on quantum walks, and Grover's algorithm can be regarded as a quantum walk-based search algorithm on a special graph. However, the existing quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-22 Yongzhen Xu , Delong Zhang , Lvzhou Li

We develop a general framework to construct quantum algorithms that detect if a $3$-uniform hypergraph given as input contains a sub-hypergraph isomorphic to a prespecified constant-sized hypergraph. This framework is based on the concept…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 François Le Gall , Harumichi Nishimura , Seiichiro Tani

We introduce a family of discrete-time quantum walks, called two-partition model, based on two equivalence-class partitions of the computational basis, which establish the notion of local dynamics. This family encompasses most versions of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-07-31 Norio Konno , Renato Portugal , Iwao Sato , Etsuo Segawa

Recently, Ambainis gave an O(N^(2/3))-query quantum walk algorithm for element distinctness, and more generally, an O(N^(L/(L+1)))-query algorithm for finding L equal numbers. We point out that this algorithm actually solves a much more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-20 Andrew M. Childs , Jason M. Eisenberg

We analyze the equivalence between discrete-time coined quantum walks and Szegedy's quantum walks. We characterize a class of flip-flop coined models with generalized Grover coin on a graph $\Gamma$ that can be directly converted into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-03 Renato Portugal , Etsuo Segawa

Shenvi, Kempe and Whaley's quantum random-walk search (SKW) algorithm [Phys. Rev. A 67, 052307 (2003)] is known to require $O(\sqrt N)$ number of oracle queries to find the marked element, where $N$ is the size of the search space. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-20 V. Potocek , A. Gabris , T. Kiss , I. Jex

The interest in quantum walks has been steadily increasing during the last two decades. It is still worth to present new forms of quantum walks that might find practical applications and new physical behaviors. In this work, we define…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-06 Bruno Chagas , Renato Portugal