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Deterministic Grover search with a restricted oracle

Quantum Physics 2022-11-15 v3

Abstract

Grover's quantum search algorithm provides a quadratic quantum advantage over classical algorithms across a broad class of unstructured search problems. The original protocol is probabilistic, returning the desired result with significant probability on each query, but in general, requiring several iterations of the algorithm. We present a modified version to return the correct result with certainty without having user control over the quantum search oracle. Our deterministic, two-parameter "D2p" protocol utilizes generalized phase rotations replacing the phase inversions after a standard oracle query. The D2p protocol achieves a 100% success rate in no more than one additional iteration compared to the optimal number of steps in the original Grover's search enabling the same quadratic speed up. We also provide a visualization using the Bloch sphere for enhanced geometric intuition.

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@article{arxiv.2201.00091,
  title  = {Deterministic Grover search with a restricted oracle},
  author = {Tanay Roy and Liang Jiang and David I. Schuster},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.00091},
  year   = {2022}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures

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