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We consider quantum search algorithms that have access to a noisy oracle that, for every oracle call, with probability $p>0$ completely depolarizes the query registers, while otherwise working properly. Previous results had not ruled out…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Ansis Rosmanis

Quantum computing has gained a lot of attention recently, and scientists have seen potential applications in this field using quantum computing for Cryptography and Communication to Machine Learning and Healthcare. Protein folding has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-16 Hasan Mustafa , Sai Nandan Morapakula , Prateek Jain , Srinjoy Ganguly

The Quantum Approximate Optimisation Algorithm (QAOA) is a widely studied quantum-classical iterative heuristic for combinatorial optimisation. While QAOA targets problems in complexity class NP, the classical optimisation procedure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 Tom Krüger , Wolfgang Mauerer

The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is a near-term quantum algorithm aimed at solving combinatorial optimization problems. Since its introduction, various generalizations have emerged, spanning modifications to the initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-18 Truman Yu Ng , Jin Ming Koh , Dax Enshan Koh

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

Grover's unstructured search algorithm is one of the best examples to date for the superiority of quantum algorithms over classical ones. Its applicability, however, has been questioned by many due to its oracular nature. We propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-21 Itay Hen

The discovery of derivatives and integrals was a tremendous leap in scientific knowledge and completely revolutionized many fields, including mathematics, physics, and engineering. The existence of higher-order derivatives means better…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Basanta R. Pahari , Sagar Bhat , Siri Davidi , William Oates

Grover's algorithm provides a quadratic speedup over classical algorithms to search for marked elements in an unstructured database. The original algorithm is probabilistic, returning a marked element with bounded error. There are several…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 Guanzhong Li , Lvzhou Li

Quantum optimization algorithms (QOAs) have the potential to fundamentally transform the application of optimization methods in decision making. For certain classes of optimization problems, it is widely believed that QOA enables…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-15 Florian Klug

High-dimensional portfolio optimization faces significant computational challenges under complex constraints, with traditional optimization methods struggling to balance convergence speed and global exploration capability. To address this,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Mingyang Yu , Jiaqi Zhang , Haorui Yang , Adam Slowik , Jun Zhang , Jing Xu

We propose a different methodology towards approaching a Maze problem. We convert the problem into a Quantum Search Problem (QSP), and its solutions are sought for using the iterative Grover's Search Algorithm. Though the category of mazes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-19 Niraj Kumar , Debabrata Goswami

Grover's quantum search and its generalization, quantum amplitude amplification, provide quadratic advantage over classical algorithms for a diverse set of tasks, but are tricky to use without knowing beforehand what fraction $\lambda$ of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-26 Theodore J. Yoder , Guang Hao Low , Isaac L. Chuang

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a quantum algorithm proposed for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices and is regarded as a promising approach to combinatorial optimization problems, with potential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Shintaro Yamamura , Satoshi Watanabe , Masaya Kunimi , Kazuhiro Saito , Tetsuro Nikuni

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

Quantum optimization allows for up to exponential quantum speedups for specific, possibly industrially relevant problems. As the key algorithm in this field, we motivate and discuss the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Jonas Stein , Maximilian Zorn , Leo Sünkel , Thomas Gabor

Quantum algorithms are conventionally formulated for implementation on a single system of qubits amenable to projective measurements. However, in expectation value quantum computation, such as nuclear magnetic resonance realizations, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Collins

QAOA is a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm to solve optimization problems in gate-based quantum computers. It is based on a variational quantum circuit that can be interpreted as a discretization of the annealing process that quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Francisco Chicano , Zakaria Abdelmoiz Dahi , Gabriel Luque

Quantum and quantum-inspired optimisation algorithms are designed to solve problems represented in binary, quadratic and unconstrained form. Combinatorial optimisation problems are therefore often formulated as Quadratic Unconstrained…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Mayowa Ayodele , Richard Allmendinger , Manuel López-Ibáñez , Matthieu Parizy

This tutorial offers a quick, hands-on introduction to solving Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) models on currently available quantum computers and their simulators. We cover both IBM and D-Wave machines: IBM utilizes a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Arul Mazumder , Sridhar Tayur

Quantum computing provides powerful algorithmic tools that have been shown to outperform established classical solvers in specific optimization tasks. A core step in solving optimization problems with known quantum algorithms such as the…