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Quantum walks provide a powerful framework for achieving algorithmic speedup in quantum computing. This paper presents a quantum search algorithm for 2-tessellable graphs, a generalization of bipartite graphs, achieving a quadratic speedup…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-18 Gustavo Alves Bezerra , Andris Ambainis , Renato Portugal

We survey $k$-best enumeration problems and the algorithms for solving them, including in particular the problems of finding the $k$ shortest paths, $k$ smallest spanning trees, and $k$ best matchings in weighted graphs.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-17 David Eppstein

Cyclic structures are fundamental topological features in graphs, playing critical roles in network robustness, information flow, community structure, and various dynamic processes. Algorithmic tools that can efficiently probe and analyze…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Heman Shakeri , Torben Amtoft , Behnaz Moradi-Jamei , Nathan Albin , Pietro Poggi-Corradini

We present two new quantum algorithms that either find a triangle (a copy of $K_{3}$) in an undirected graph $G$ on $n$ nodes, or reject if $G$ is triangle free. The first algorithm uses combinatorial ideas with Grover Search and makes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frederic Magniez , Miklos Santha , Mario Szegedy

We present classical and quantum algorithms based on spectral methods for a problem in tensor principal component analysis. The quantum algorithm achieves a quartic speedup while using exponentially smaller space than the fastest classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 M. B. Hastings

Quantum networks are important for quantum communication, enabling tasks such as quantum teleportation, quantum key distribution, quantum sensing, and quantum error correction, often utilizing graph states, a specific class of multipartite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Aniruddha Sen , Kenneth Goodenough , Don Towsley

Finding the minimum value in an unordered database is a common and fundamental task in computer science. However, the optimal classical deterministic algorithm can find the minimum value with a time complexity that grows linearly with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-13 Anton S. Albino , Lucas Q. Galvão , Ethan Hansen , Mauro Q. Nooblath Neto , Clebson Cruz

Although quantum machine learning has shown great promise, the practical application of quantum computers remains constrained in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum era. To take advantage of quantum machine learning, we investigate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Shaozhi Li , M Sabbir Salek , Mashrur Chowdhury , Yao Wang

A {\em parametric weighted graph} is a graph whose edges are labeled with continuous real functions of a single common variable. For any instantiation of the variable, one obtains a standard edge-weighted graph. Parametric weighted graph…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Eldar Fischer , Oded Lachish , Raphael Yuster

We give a quantum algorithm for evaluating formulas over an extended gate set, including all two- and three-bit binary gates (e.g., NAND, 3-majority). The algorithm is optimal on read-once formulas for which each gate's inputs are balanced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-10 Ben W. Reichardt , Robert Spalek

Solving large systems of equations is a challenge for modeling natural phenomena, such as simulating subsurface flow. To avoid systems that are intractable on current computers, it is often necessary to neglect information at small scales,…

This article presents a novel and succinct algorithmic framework via alternating quantum walks, unifying quantum spatial search, state transfer and uniform sampling on a large class of graphs. Using the framework, we can achieve exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Qingwen Wang , Ying Jiang , Lvzhou Li

A randomly walking quantum particle evolving by Schr\"odinger's equation searches for a unique marked vertex on the "simplex of complete graphs" in time $\Theta(N^{3/4})$. In this paper, we give a weighted version of this graph that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-22 Thomas G. Wong

We study how quantum walks can be used to find structural anomalies in graphs via several examples. Two of our examples are based on star graphs, graphs with a single central vertex to which the other vertices, which we call external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Mark Hillery , Hongjun Zheng , Edgar Feldman , Daniel Reitzner , Vladimir Buzek

We consider the core algorithmic problems related to verification of systems with respect to three classical quantitative properties, namely, the mean-payoff property, the ratio property, and the minimum initial credit for energy property.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen , Andreas Pavlogiannis

Graphs are a natural representation of data from various contexts, such as social connections, the web, road networks, and many more. In the last decades, many of these networks have become enormous, requiring efficient algorithms to cut…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Alexander Noe

Graph sparsification underlies a large number of algorithms, ranging from approximation algorithms for cut problems to solvers for linear systems in the graph Laplacian. In its strongest form, "spectral sparsification" reduces the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Simon Apers , Ronald de Wolf

We present a quantum algorithm that additively approximates the value of a tensor network to a certain scale. When combined with existing results, this provides a complete problem for quantum computation. The result is a simple new way of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-09 Itai Arad , Zeph Landau

We present three new quantum algorithms in the quantum query model for \textsc{graph-collision} problem: \begin{itemize} \item an algorithm based on tree decomposition that uses $O\left(\sqrt{n}t^{\sfrac{1}{6}}\right)$ queries where $t$ is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-07 Andris Ambainis , Kaspars Balodis , Jānis Iraids , Raitis Ozols , Juris Smotrovs

The maximal clique problem, to find the maximally sized clique in a given graph, is classically an NP-complete computational problem, which has potential applications ranging from electrical engineering, computational chemistry,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Weng-Long Chang , Qi Yu , Zhaokai Li , Jiahui Chen , Xinhua Peng , Mang Feng