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The rapid progress of computer science has been accompanied by a corresponding evolution of computation, from classical computation to quantum computation. As quantum computing is on its way to becoming an established discipline of…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-03-10 D. K. Ningtyas , A. B. Mutiara

Quantum computation has attracted much attention since it was shown by Shor and Grover the possibility to implement quantum algorithms able to realize, respectively, factoring and searching in a faster way than any other known classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rubens Viana Ramos , Paulo Benicio de Sousa , David Sena Oliveira

Grover's algorithm is a primary algorithm offered as evidence that quantum computers can provide an advantage over classical computers. It involves an "oracle" specified for a given application whose structure is not part of the formal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-14 E. M. Stoudenmire , Xavier Waintal

We introduce the concepts of Grover operators and Grover kernels to systematically analyse Grover's searching algorithms. Then, we investigate a one-parameter family of quantum searching algorithms of Grover's type and we show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Alberto Galindo , Miguel A. Martin-Delgado

Grover's algorithm relies on the superposition and interference of quantum mechanics, which is more efficient than classical computing in specific tasks such as searching an unsorted database. Due to the high complexity of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 H. Sun , Z. Shi , S. Chen , G. Wang , X. Li , Y. Guan , Q. Zhang , Z. Shao

We generalize Grover's unstructured quantum search algorithm to enable it to use an arbitrary starting superposition and an arbitrary unitary matrix simultaneously. We derive an exact formula for the probability of the generalized Grover's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 Robert Gingrich , Colin P. Williams , Nicolas Cerf

We recast Grover's generalised search algorithm in a geometric language even when the states are not approximately orthogonal. We provide a possible search algorithm based on an arbitrary unitary transformation which can speed up the steps…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arun Kumar Pati

Optimizing high-degree of freedom robotic manipulators requires searching complex, high-dimensional configuration spaces, a task that is computationally challenging for classical methods. This paper introduces a quantum native framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Hassen Nigatu , Shi Gaokun , Li Jituo , Wang Jin , Lu Guodong , Howard Li

L. K. Grover's search algorithm in quantum computing gives an optimal, quadratic speedup in the search for a single object in a large unsorted database. In this paper, we generalize Grover's algorithm in a Hilbert-space framework for both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Goong Chen , Stephen A. Fulling , Jeesen Chen

Grover's search algorithm is the cornerstone of many applications of quantum computing, providing a quadratic speed-up over classical methods. One limitation of the algorithm is that it requires knowledge of the number of solutions to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Samuel Cogan , Jonathan Raghoonanan , Tim Byrnes

Quantum Grover search algorithm can find a target item in a database faster than any classical algorithm. One can trade accuracy for speed and find a part of the database (a block) containing the target item even faster, this is partial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Vladimir Korepin

Grover's quantum algorithm improves any classical search algorithm. We show how random Gaussian noise at each step of the algorithm can be modelled easily because of the exact recursion formulas available for computing the quantum amplitude…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Pablo-Norman , M. Ruiz-Altaba

Grover's algorithm is a quantum search algorithm that proceeds by repeated applications of the Grover operator and the Oracle until the state evolves to one of the target states. In the standard version of the algorithm, the Grover operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Tim Byrnes , Gary Forster , Louis Tessler

The Grover quantum search algorithm is generalized to deal with an arbitrary mixed initial state. The probability to measure a marked state as a function of time is calculated, and found to depend strongly on the specific initial state. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eli Biham , Dan Kenigsberg

Grover's database search algorithm, although discovered in the context of quantum computation, can be implemented using any physical system that allows superposition of states. A physical realization of this algorithm is described using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Apoorva D. Patel

In a fundamental paper [Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 325 (1997)] Grover showed how a quantum computer can find a single marked object in a database of size N by using only O(N^{1/2}) queries of the oracle that identifies the object. His result was…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Shahar Dolev , Itamar Pitowsky , Boaz Tamir

Grover's search algorithm was originally proposed for circuit-based quantum computers. A crucial part of it is to query an oracle -- a black-box unitary operation. Generation of this oracle is formally beyond the original algorithm design.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-02 Bin Yan , Nikolai A. Sinitsyn

The research community has been actively working on the realization of quantum computer. But the large scale commercial quantum computers are not a reality yet quantum computing field has become richer by day with the advent of algorithms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-06 Ayan Chattopadhyay , Vikram Menon

In the recent years, we have seen that Grover search algorithm (Proceedings, 28th annual ACM symposium on the theory of computing, pp. 212-219, 1996) by using quantum parallelism has revolutionized the field of solving huge class of NP…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-23 Indranil Chakrabarty , Shahzor Khan , Vanshdeep Singh

Grover's algorithm is normally presented as a method of searching a database, however it would be more accurately described as a method of identifying elements of an interval of the integers which satisfy some logical clause - an example…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-09 David Jones , Benjamin Varcoe