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We prove lower bounds on the error probability of a quantum algorithm for searching through an unordered list of N items, as a function of the number T of queries it makes. In particular, if T=O(sqrt{N}) then the error is lower bounded by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Harry Buhrman , Ronald de Wolf

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

Grover search is a renowned quantum search algorithm that leverages quantum superposition to find a marked item with quadratic speedup. However, when implemented on Noisy Intermediate-scale Quantum (NISQ) hardware, the required repeated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-11 Chen-Yu Liu

State-of-the-art classical optimization solvers set a high bar for quantum computers to deliver utility in this domain. Here, we introduce a quantum preconditioning approach based on the quantum approximate optimization algorithm. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Maxime Dupont , Tina Oberoi , Bhuvanesh Sundar

Contextuality is a central feature of quantum theory, traditionally understood as the impossibility of reproducing quantum measurement statistics using noncontextual ontological models. We study classical ontological descriptions in which a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Song-Ju Kim

The laws of quantum mechanics allow to perform measurements whose precision supersedes results predicted by classical parameter estimation theory. That is, the precision bound imposed by the central limit theorem in the estimation of a…

There has been increasing interest in developing efficient quantum algorithms for hard classical problems. The Network Signal Coordination (NSC) problem is one such problem known to be NP complete. We implement Grover's search algorithm to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Vinayak Dixit , Richard Pech

A broad class of hybrid quantum-classical algorithms known as "variational algorithms" have been proposed in the context of quantum simulation, machine learning, and combinatorial optimization as a means of potentially achieving a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-09 Aram Harrow , John Napp

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

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

An ideal quantum walk transitions from one vertex to another with perfect fidelity, but in physical systems, the particle may be hindered by potential energy barriers. Then the particle has some amplitude of tunneling through the barriers,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-10 Thomas G. Wong

Contextuality, a generalization of non-locality, has been proposed as the resource that provides the computational speed-up for quantum computation. For universal quantum computation using qudits, of odd-prime dimension, contextuality has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Piers Lillystone , Joseph Emerson

Ordered search is the task of finding an item in an ordered list using comparison queries. The best exact classical algorithm for this fundamental problem uses $\lceil \log_{2}{n}\rceil$ queries for a list of length $n$. Quantum computers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Joseph Carolan , Andrew M. Childs , Matt Kovacs-Deak , Luke Schaeffer

Numerous conceptually important quantum algorithms rely on a black-box device known as an oracle, which is typically difficult to construct without knowing the answer to the problem that the algorithm is intended to solve. A notable example…

Quantum Computing offers an entirely new way of doing computation governed by the rules of quantum mechanics like Superposition and Entanglement. These rules allow us to do computation over all the possible states simultaneously. Hence,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-08 Mohd. Hussain Mir , Harkirat Singh

Recent research has demonstrated that quantum computers can solve certain types of problems substantially faster than the known classical algorithms. These problems include factoring integers and certain physics simulations. Practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Emanuel Knill , Raymond Laflamme , Wojciech H. Zurek

Quantum algorithm is constructed which verifies the formulas of predicate calculus in time $O(\sqrt N)$ with bounded error probability, where $N$ is the time required for classical algorithms. This algorithm uses the polynomial number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuri Ozhigov

We assess the potential of quantum computing to accelerate computation of central tasks in genomics, focusing on often-neglected theoretical limitations. We discuss state-of-the-art challenges of quantum search, optimization, and machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Aurora Maurizio , Guglielmo Mazzola

We discuss classical and quantum algorithms for solvability testing and finding integer solutions x,y of equations of the form af^x + bg^y = c over finite fields GF(q). A quantum algorithm with time complexity q^(3/8) (log q)^O(1) is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-08 Wim van Dam , Igor E. Shparlinski

We initiate a systematic study of pseudo-deterministic quantum algorithms. These are quantum algorithms that, for any input, output a canonical solution with high probability. Focusing on the query complexity model, our main contributions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Hugo Aaronson , Tom Gur , Jiawei Li