arXiv · quant-ph/0609205
Group Theoretical Formulation of Quantum Partial Search Algorithm
Abstract
Searching and sorting used as a subroutine in many important algorithms. Quantum algorithm can find a target item in a database faster than any classical algorithm. One can trade accuracy for speed and find a part of the database (a block) containing the target item even faster, this is partial search. An example is the following: exact address of the target item is given by a sequence of many bits, but we need to know only some of them. More generally partial search considers the following problem: a database is separated into several blocks. We want to find a block with the target item, not the target item itself. In this paper we reformulate quantum partial search algorithm in terms of group theory.
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Vladimir E. Korepin, Brenno C. Vallilo. 2006-09-27. Group Theoretical Formulation of Quantum Partial Search Algorithm. https://doi.org/10.1143/ptp.116.783
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