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Quantum query complexity is typically characterized in terms of XOR queries |x,y> to |x,y+f(x)> or phase queries, which ensure that even queries to non-invertible functions are unitary. When querying a permutation, another natural model is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Blake Holman , Ronak Ramachandran , Justin Yirka

We use a Bayesian approach to optimally solve problems in noisy binary search. We deal with two variants: 1. Each comparison can be erroneous with some probability $1 - p$. 2. At each stage $k$ comparisons can be performed in parallel and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 M. Ben-Or , Avinatan Hassidim

Optimization problems become fundamentally challenging as the number of variables increases. Because the volume of the search space grows exponentially, classical algorithms frequently fail to locate the global minimum of non-convex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Dominik Soós , Marc Paterno , John Stenger , Nikos Chrisochoides

We investigate the behavior of the recently proposed quantum Google algorithm, or quantum PageRank, in large complex networks. Applying the quantum algorithm to a part of the real World Wide Web, we find that the algorithm is able to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-30 G. D. Paparo , M. Mueller , F. Comellas , M. A. Martin-Delgado

We present a quantum algorithmic routine that extends the realm of Grover-based heuristics for tackling combinatorial optimization problems with arbitrary efficiently computable objective and constraint functions. Building on previously…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Sören Wilkening

We present a novel quantum algorithm for solving the unstructured search problem with one marked element. Our algorithm allows generating quantum circuits that use asymptotically fewer additional quantum gates than the famous Grover's…

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm can be applied to search problems on graphs with a cost function that is a sum of terms corresponding to the edges. When conjugating an edge term, the QAOA unitary at depth p produces an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 Edward Farhi , David Gamarnik , Sam Gutmann

We construct a quantum searching model of a signed edge driven by a quantum walk. The time evolution operator of this quantum walk provides a weighted adjacency matrix induced by the assignment of sign to each edge. This sign can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Etsuo Segawa , Yusuke Yoshie

The aim of this work is to develop a framework for realising quantum network algorithms with the use of prior knowledge about the structure of the network. We seek to obtain computational methods that allows us to locally determine network…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-30 Przemysław Sadowski

We consider the recognition problem of the Dyck Language generalized for multiple types of brackets. We provide an algorithm with quantum query complexity $O(\sqrt{n}(\log n)^{0.5k})$, where $n$ is the length of input and $k$ is the maximal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-18 Kamil Khadiev , Dmitry Kravchenko

Variational quantum algorithms have become the de facto model for current quantum computations. A prominent example of such algorithms -- the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) -- was originally designed for combinatorial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Ernesto Campos , Daniil Rabinovich , Alexey Uvarov

The search for "a quantum needle in a quantum haystack" is a metaphor for the problem of finding out which one of a permissible set of unitary mappings---the oracles---is implemented by a given black box. Grover's algorithm solves this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-19 Arun Sehrawat , Le Huy Nguyen , Berthold-Georg Englert

PARITY is the problem of determining the parity of a string $f$ of $n$ bits given access to an oracle that responds to a query $x\in\{0,1,...,n-1\}$ with the $x^{\rm th}$ bit of the string, $f(x)$. Classically, $n$ queries are required to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-12 David A. Meyer , James Pommersheim

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

Sorting is a fundamental computational process, which facilitates subsequent searching of a database. It can be thought of as factorisation of the search process. The location of a desired item in a sorted database can be found by classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Apoorva Patel

One of the most important algorithmic applications of quantum walks is to solve spatial search problems. A widely used quantum algorithm for this problem, introduced by Childs and Goldstone [Phys. Rev. A 70, 022314 (2004)], finds a marked…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Shantanav Chakraborty , Leonardo Novo , Jérémie Roland

Quantum walks have been useful for designing quantum algorithms that outperform their classical versions for a variety of search problems. Most of the papers, however, consider a search space containing a single marked element only. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-12 Nikolajs Nahimovs , Raqueline A. M. Santos

Grover's quantum search algorithm provides a quadratic speedup over the classical one. The computational complexity is based on the number of queries to the oracle. However, depth is a more modern metric for noisy intermediate-scale quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 Kun Zhang , Vladimir E. Korepin

In this paper, we will define a quantum operator that performs the inversion about the mean only on a subspace of the system (Partial Diffusion Operator). This operator is used in a quantum search algorithm that runs in O(sqrt{N/M}) for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ahmed Younes , Jon Rowe , Julian Miller

Generic quantum search algorithm searches for target entity in an unsorted database by repeatedly applying canonical Grover's quantum rotation transform to reach near the vicinity of the target entity. Thus, upon measurement, there is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-15 Ashish Mani , C. Patvardhan