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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

The recently presented idea to learn heuristics for combinatorial optimization problems is promising as it can save costly development. However, to push this idea towards practical implementation, we need better models and better ways of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-08 Wouter Kool , Herke van Hoof , Max Welling

Grover's quantum search algorithm can be formulated as a quantum particle randomly walking on the (highly symmetric) complete graph, with one vertex marked by a nonzero potential. From an initial equal superposition, the state evolves in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-30 Jonatan Janmark , David A. Meyer , Thomas G. Wong

Logic entailment is essential to reasoning, but entailment checking has the worst-case complexity of an exponential of the variable size. With recent development, quantum computing when mature may allow an effective approach for various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Tatpong Katanyukul

Grover's algorithm is a cornerstone of quantum search algorithm, offering quadratic speedup for unstructured problems. However, limited qubit counts and noise in today's noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices hinder large-scale…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Mei Ian Sam , Tzu-Ling Kuo , Tai-Yue Li

The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a prototypical combinatorial optimization problem, but its quantum implementation is limited by the O(n^2)-qubit overhead of standard one-hot encodings. Here, we propose a resource-efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Yuefeng Lin , Chao Zheng , Cong Guo

Here we suggest a modification of Grover's algorithm, based on a multiphase oracle which marks each solution with a different phase when there is more than one solution. Such a modification can be used to maintain a high probability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Hristo Tonchev , Rosen Bahtev

We present novel path-slicing strategies integrated with quantum local search to optimize solutions for the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), addressing the limitations of current Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) technologies. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-19 Chen-Yu Liu , Hiromichi Matsuyama , Wei-hao Huang , Yu Yamashiro

Grover's algorithm is one of the most important quantum algorithms, which performs the task of searching an unsorted database without a priori probability. Recently the adiabatic evolution has been used to design and reproduce quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhaohui Wei , Mingsheng Ying

A quantum algorithm is a set of instructions for a quantum computer, however, unlike algorithms in classical computer science their results cannot be guaranteed. A quantum system can undergo two types of operation, measurement and quantum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-30 Eva Borbely

The generalized traveling salesman problem (GTSP) is an extension of the well-known traveling salesman problem. In GTSP, we are given a partition of cities into groups and we are required to find a minimum length tour that includes exactly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-03-30 Gregory Gutin , Daniel Karapetyan

In this work, we introduce Graph Pointer Networks (GPNs) trained using reinforcement learning (RL) for tackling the traveling salesman problem (TSP). GPNs build upon Pointer Networks by introducing a graph embedding layer on the input,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Qiang Ma , Suwen Ge , Danyang He , Darshan Thaker , Iddo Drori

We study some extensions of Grover's quantum searching algorithm. First, we generalize the Grover iteration in the light of a concept called amplitude amplification. Then, we show that the quadratic speedup obtained by the quantum searching…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-03 Gilles Brassard , Peter Hoyer , Alain Tapp

Grover Search is currently one of the main quantum algorithms leading to hybrid quantum-classical methods that reduce the worst-case time complexity for some combinatorial optimization problems. Specifically, the combination of Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Camille Grange , Michael Poss , Eric Bourreau , Vincent T'kindt , Olivier Ploton

We reveal the power of Grover's algorithm from thermodynamic and geometric perspectives by showing that it is a product formula approximation of imaginary-time evolution (ITE), a Riemannian gradient flow on the special unitary group. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Yudai Suzuki , Marek Gluza , Jeongrak Son , Bi Hong Tiang , Nelly H. Y. Ng , Zoë Holmes

The Grover search algorithm is one of the two key algorithms in the field of quantum computing, and hence it is of significant interest to describe it in the most efficient mathematical formalism. We show firstly, that Clifford's formalism…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-10 James M. Chappell , M. A. Lohe , Lorenz von Smekal , Azhar Iqbal , Derek Abbot

We give an adaptive, fixed-point version of Grover's algorithm. By this we mean that our algorithm performs an infinite sequence of gradually diminishing steps (so we say it's adaptive) that drives the starting state to the target state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-14 Robert R. Tucci

Grover's algorithm can be employed in global optimization methods providing, in some cases, a quadratic speedup over classical algorithms. This paper describes a new method for continuous global optimization problems that uses a classical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-01-22 Pedro Lara , Renato Portugal , Carlile Lavor

A misunderstanding that an arbitrary phase rotation of the marked state together with the inversion about average operation in Grover's search algorithm can be used to construct a (less efficient) quantum search algorithm is cleared. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Gui Lu Long , Wei Lin Zhang , Yan Song Li , Li Niu

Search is one of the most commonly used primitives in quantum algorithm design. It is known that quadratic speedups provided by Grover's algorithm are optimal, and no faster quantum algorithms for Search exist. While it is known that at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Ansis Rosmanis