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Several mathematical problems can be modeled as a search in a database. An example is the problem of finding the minimum of a function. Quantum algorithms for solving this problem have been proposed and all of them use the quantum search…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-07 R. V. Ramos , J. L. de Oliveira

We present an algorithm for the generalized search problem (searching $k$ marked items among $N$ items) based on a continuous Hamiltonian and exploiting resonance. This resonant algorithm has the same time complexity $O(\sqrt{N/k})$ as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-01 Frank Wilczek , Hong-Ye Hu , Biao Wu

It has recently been shown that starting with a classical query algorithm (decision tree) and a guessing algorithm that tries to predict the query answers, we can design a quantum algorithm with query complexity $O(\sqrt{GT})$ where $T$ is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Salman Beigi , Leila Taghavi , Artin Tajdini

We show a simple generalization of the quantum walk algorithm for search in backtracking trees by Montanaro (ToC 2018) to the case where vertices can have different times of computation. If a vertex $v$ in the tree of depth $D$ is computed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Jevgēnijs Vihrovs

We propose quantum algorithms, purely quantum in nature, for calculating the determinant and inverse of an $(N-1)\times (N-1)$ matrix (depth is $O(N^2\log N)$) which is a simple modification of the algorithm for calculating the determinant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Alexander I. Zenchuk , Georgii A. Bochkin , Wentao Qi , Asutosh Kumar , Junde Wu

We present a bounded-error quantum algorithm for evaluating Min-Max trees. For a tree of size N our algorithm makes N^{1/2+o(1)} comparison queries, which is close to the optimal complexity for this problem.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Richard Cleve , Dmytro Gavinsky , David L. Yonge-Mallo

This paper considers the quantum query complexity of {\it $\eps$-biased oracles} that return the correct value with probability only $1/2 + \eps$. In particular, we show a quantum algorithm to compute $N$-bit OR functions with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomoya Suzuki , Shigeru Yamashita , Masaki Nakanishi , Katsumasa Watanabe

Given a random permutation $f: [N] \to [N]$ as a black box and $y \in [N]$, we want to output $x = f^{-1}(y)$. Supplementary to our input, we are given classical advice in the form of a pre-computed data structure; this advice can depend on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-22 Aran Nayebi , Scott Aaronson , Aleksandrs Belovs , Luca Trevisan

Quantum computing has evolved quickly in recent years and is showing significant benefits in a variety of fields, especially in the realm of cybersecurity. The combination of software used to locate the most frequent hashes and $n$-grams…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-09 Nicholas R. Allgood , Charles K. Nicholas

Shenvi, Kempe and Whaley's quantum random-walk search (SKW) algorithm [Phys. Rev. A 67, 052307 (2003)] is known to require $O(\sqrt N)$ number of oracle queries to find the marked element, where $N$ is the size of the search space. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-20 V. Potocek , A. Gabris , T. Kiss , I. Jex

This paper aims to solve machine learning optimization problem by using quantum circuit. Two approaches, namely the average approach and the Partial Swap Test Cut-off method (PSTC) was proposed to search for the global minimum/maximum of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Lanston Hau Man Chu , Tejas Bhojraj , Rui Huang

Quantum search is a quantum mechanical technique for searching N possibilities in only sqrt(N) steps. This has been proved to be the best possible algorithm for the exhuastive search problem in the sense the number of queries it requires…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Lov K. Grover

We present a quantum algorithm that verifies a product of two n*n matrices over any field with bounded error in worst-case time n^{5/3} and expected time n^{5/3} / min(w,sqrt(n))^{1/3}, where w is the number of wrong entries. This improves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Harry Buhrman , Robert Spalek

In this work we study quantum algorithms for Hopcroft's problem which is a fundamental problem in computational geometry. Given $n$ points and $n$ lines in the plane, the task is to determine whether there is a point-line incidence. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-03 Vladimirs Andrejevs , Aleksandrs Belovs , Jevgēnijs Vihrovs

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 give an O(sqrt n log n)-query quantum algorithm for evaluating size-n AND-OR formulas. Its running time is poly-logarithmically greater after efficient preprocessing. Unlike previous approaches, the algorithm is based on a quantum walk…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-11 Ben W. Reichardt

We prove that any exact quantum algorithm searching an ordered list of N elements requires more than \frac{1}{\pi}(\ln(N)-1) queries to the list. This improves upon the previously best known lower bound of {1/12}\log_2(N) - O(1). Our proof…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Hoyer , Jan Neerbek

We show that Durr-Hoyer's quantum algorithm of searching for extreme point of integer function can not be sped up for functions chosen randomly. Any other algorithm acting in substantially shorter time $o(\sqrt{2^n})$ gives incorrect answer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yuri Ozhigov

We show that quantum search can be used to compute the hardness to round an elementary function, that is, to determine the minimum working precision required to compute the values of an elementary function correctly rounded to a target…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Stefanos Kourtis

We present quantum algorithms for the following graph problems: finding a maximal bipartite matching in time O(n sqrt{m+n} log n), finding a maximal non-bipartite matching in time O(n^2 (sqrt{m/n} + log n) log n), and finding a maximal flow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andris Ambainis , Robert Spalek