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Physical Review Letters

Novel Strategy for Database Searching in Spin Liouville Space by NMR Ensemble Computing

Rafael Brüschweiler

Published Nov 27, 2000• 35 citations
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Abstract

Quantum computing by nuclear magnetic resonance using pseudopure spin states is bound by the maximal speed of quantum computing algorithms operating on pure states. In contrast to these quantum computing algorithms, a novel algorithm for searching an unsorted database is presented here that operates on truly mixed states in spin Liouville space. It provides an exponential speedup over Grover's quantum search algorithm with the sensitivity scaling exponentially with the number of spins, as for pseudopure state implementations. The minimal decoherence time required is exponentially shorter than that for Grover's algorithm.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.85.4815

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The speedup of an unsorted database search has always been a challenging problem not only in classical computation but also in quantum computation. We propose a fetching algorithm for a Liouville space nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) ensemble computing to fetch a marked item from an unsorted database directly. This algorithm achieves the absolute optimum in an unsorted database search problem: a single query. In fact, this algorithm also works well for fetching several unknown numbers of marked items. The computer simulation realization of the algorithm in a three-qubit homonuclear spin system is also presented. In addition, a compromised version of the algorithm, which reduces the demand on the structure of the molecules for the NMR experiment, is also devised.
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