Simple Algorithm for Partial Quantum Search

  • Authors:
  • Vladimir E. Korepin;Lov K. Grover

  • Affiliations:
  • C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, USA 11794-3840;Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, USA 07974

  • Venue:
  • Quantum Information Processing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Quite often in database search, we only need to extract portionof the information about the satisfying item. We consider thisproblem in the following form: the database of N items is separatedinto K blocks of size b = N / K elements each and an algorithm hasjust to find the block containing the item of interest. The queriesare exactly the same as in the standard database search problem. Wepresent a quantum algorithm for this problem of partial search thattakes about 0.34 √b fewer iterations than thequantum search algorithm.