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Dancing with Qubits - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Mar 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837636754
Pages 684 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Robert S. Sutor Robert S. Sutor
Profile icon Robert S. Sutor

Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface I Foundations
Why Quantum Computing They’re Not Old, They’re Classics More Numbers Than You Can Imagine Planes and Circles and Spheres, Oh My Dimensions 6 What Do You Mean “Probably”? II Quantum Computing
One Qubit Two Qubits, Three Wiring Up the Circuits From Circuits to Algorithms Getting Physical III Advanced Topics
Considering NISQ Algorithms Introduction to Quantum Machine Learning Questions about the Future Afterword
A Quick Reference B Notices C Production Notes Other Books You May Enjoy
References
Index
Appendices

9.9 The Bernstein-Vazirani algorithm

Suppose I were to say to you: algorithm$Bernstein-Vazirani Bernstein-Vazirani algorithm

I’m thinking of a number from 0 to 15 inclusive.
Ask me questions to guess which one it is.

How would you go about guessing the number? How many questions would you need?

This is a search problem, but it has some structure. The numbers in the collection we are searching are consecutive and ordered. There is no reason to consider an O(n) sequence of questions such as

“Is it 0?” No.
“Is it 1?” No.
“Is it 2?” No.

“Is it 13?” Yes.

Grover could help with an O(√n) approach, but we can do better with O(log2(n)) classically:

“Is it greater than 7?” Yes.
“Is it greater than 11?” Yes.
“Is it greater than 13?” No.
“Is it greater than 12?” Yes.
“...

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