Abstract
We solve the unstructured search problem in constant time by computing with a physically motivated nonlinearity of the Gross-Pitaevskii type. This speedup comes, however, at the novel expense of increasing the time-measurement precision. Jointly optimizing these resource requirements results in an overall scaling of N1/4. This is a significant, but not unreasonable, improvement over the N1/2 scaling of Grover's algorithm. Since the Gross-Pitaevskii equation approximates the multi-particle (linear) Schrödinger equation, for which Grover's algorithm is optimal, our result leads to a quantum information-theoretic lower bound on the number of particles needed for this approximation to hold, asymptotically.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 063014 |
| Journal | New Journal of Physics |
| Volume | 15 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 1 2013 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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Nonlinear quantum search using the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. / Meyer, David A.; Wong, Thomas.
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