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The method is introduced for fast data processing by reducing the probability amplitudes of undesirable elements. The algorithm has a mathematical description and circuit implementation on a quantum processor. The idea is to make a quick…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-24 Karina Zakharova , Artem Chernikov , Sergey Sysoev

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

The quantum search algorithm is a technique for searching N possibilities in only sqrt(N) steps. Although the algorithm itself is widely known, not so well known is the series of steps that first led to it, these are quite different from…

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

Grover's algorithm, orginally conceived as a means of searching an unordered database, can also be used to extract solutions from the result sets generated by quantum computations. The Grover algorithm exploits the concept of an oracle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Fintan M. Bolton

We show that any quantum algorithm searching an ordered list of n elements needs to examine at least 1/12 log n-O(1) of them. Classically, log n queries are both necessary and sufficient. This shows that quantum algorithms can achieve only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andris Ambainis

Quantum algorithm is an algorithm for solving mathematical problems using quantum systems encoded as information, which is found to outperform classical algorithms in some specific cases. The objective of this study is to develop a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 Theerapat Tansuwannont , Surachate Limkumnerd , Sujin Suwanna , Pruet Kalasuwan

We show how to find all $k$ marked elements in a list of size $N$ using the optimal number $O(\sqrt{N k})$ of quantum queries and only a polylogarithmic overhead in the gate complexity, in the setting where one has a small quantum memory.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Joran van Apeldoorn , Sander Gribling , Harold Nieuwboer

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

We introduce a structured quantum search algorithm that leverages entanglement maps and a fixed-point method to minimize oracle query complexity in unsorted datasets. By partitioning qubits into rows based on their entanglement order, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Yash Prabhat , Snigdha Thakur , Ankur Raina

$ $In its usual form, Grover's quantum search algorithm uses $O(\sqrt{N})$ queries and $O(\sqrt{N} \log N)$ other elementary gates to find a solution in an $N$-bit database. Grover in 2002 showed how to reduce the number of other gates to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-24 Srinivasan Arunachalam , Ronald de Wolf

Though quantum algorithm acts as an important role in quantum computation science, not only for providing a great vision for solving classically unsolvable problems, but also due to the fact that it gives a potential way of understanding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-11 Xiang Zhan , Jian Li , Hao Qin , Zhihao Bian , Peng Xue

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 give a quantum algorithm to find the index y in a table T of size N such that in time O(c sqrt N), T[y] is minimum with probability at least 1-1/2^c.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Christoph Durr , Peter Hoyer

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

While recent work suggests that quantum computers can speed up the solution of semidefinite programs, little is known about the quantum complexity of more general convex optimization. We present a quantum algorithm that can optimize a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Shouvanik Chakrabarti , Andrew M. Childs , Tongyang Li , Xiaodi Wu

We consider the problem of search of an unstructured list for a marked element, when one is given advice as to where this element might be located, in the form of a probability distribution. The goal is to minimise the expected number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-02 Ashley Montanaro

We study quantum algorithms for spatial search on finite dimensional grids. Patel et al. and Falk have proposed algorithms based on a quantum walk without a coin, with different operators applied at even and odd steps. Until now, such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 Andris Ambainis , Renato Portugal , Nikolay Nahimov

Quantum contextuality is a limitation on deterministic hidden variable models, testable in measurement scenarios where outcomes differ under quantum or classical descriptions due to a common set of constraints. When considering measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Colm Kelleher , Frédéric Holweck

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

We develop the first quantum algorithm for the constrained portfolio optimization problem. The algorithm has running time $\widetilde{O} \left( n\sqrt{r} \frac{\zeta \kappa}{\delta^2} \log \left(1/\epsilon\right) \right)$, where $r$ is the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-23 Iordanis Kerenidis , Anupam Prakash , Dániel Szilágyi