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related topics
{algorithm, log, probability}
{qubit, qubits, gate}
{states, state, optimal}
{bell, inequality, local}

Tradeoffs in the Quantum Search Algorithm

Lov K. Grover

abstract: 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 cannot be reduced. However, as this paper shows, the number of non-query operations, and thus the total number of operations, can be reduced. The number of non-query unitary operations can be reduced by a factor of log N/alpha*log(log N) while increasing the number of queries by a factor of only (1+(log N)^{-alpha}). Various choices of alpha yield different variants of the algorithm. For example, by choosing alpha to be O(log N/log(log N)), the number of non-query unitary operations can be reduced by 40% while increasing the number of queries by just two.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0201152
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
11 pages
doi:
10.1103/PhysRevA.66.052314
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0201152
created:
2002-01-31

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