Consider the number of steps needed by algorithms to locate the minimum of functions defined on the d-cube, where the functions are known to have no local minima except the global minimum. Regard this ...

Quantum walks, the quantum analogue of classical random walks, have emerged as a pivotal framework in the study of quantum dynamics and information processing. These systems exploit inherently quantum ...

Quantum bits (qubits) are the building blocks of quantum computers, but putting enough of them together in the one device to run computations like those expected in a standard computer is difficult to ...

Delayed-acceptance Metropolis–Hastings and delayed-acceptance pseudo-marginal Metropolis–Hastings algorithms can be applied when it is computationally expensive to calculate the true posterior or an ...

Single atoms have been spotted doing the quantum version of the random walk by physicists in Germany. This sighting of a “quantum walk” could help in the design of quantum search algorithms, or in the ...

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