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Effects of initial states on the quantum correlations in the generalized Grover search algorithm*

Zhenyu Chen, Tianhui Qiu, Wenbin Zhang, Hongyang Ma

Published May 27, 2021• 1 citation
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Abstract

We investigate the correlations between two qubits in the Grover search algorithm with arbitrary initial states by numerical simulation. Using a set of suitable bases, we construct the reduced density matrix and give the numerical expression of correlations relating to the iterations. For different initial states, we obtain the concurrence and quantum discord compared with the success probability in the algorithm. The results show that the initial states affect the correlations and the limit point of the correlations in the searching process. However, the initial states do not influence the whole cyclical trend.

DOI
10.1088/1674-1056/ac05a9

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We generalize Grover algorithm with two arbitrary phases in a density matrix set up. We give exact analytic expressions for the success probability after arbitrary number of iteration of the generalized Grover operator as a function of number of iterations, two phase angles (α, \{beta}) and parameter ξ introduced in the off diagonal terms of the density matrix in a sense to capture the coherence present in the initial quantum register. We extend Li and Li's idea and show for the phase matching condition α = -\{beta} = 0.35π with two iterations and ξ = 1, we can achieve success probability >= 0.8 only with a knowledge about the lower bound of λ = 0.166 where λ is the ratio of marked to total number states in the database. Finally we quantify success probability of the algorithm with decrease in coherence of the initial quantum state against modest noise in this simple model.
The Grover search is a well-known quantum algorithm that outperforms any classical search algorithm. It is known that quantum correlations such as entanglement are responsible for the power of some quantum information protocols. But entanglement is not the only kind of quantum correlations. Other quantum correlations such as quantum discord are also useful to capture some important properties of the nonclassical correlation. Also there is no well-accepted and clear distinction between quantum correlations and classical correlations. In this paper, we systematically investigate several kinds of correlations including both quantum and classical in the whole process of the Grover search algorithm. These correlations are the concurrence, entanglement of formation, quantum discord, classical correlation and mutual information. The behaviors of quantum discord, classical correlation and mutual information are almost the same while the concurrence is different in the qubit–qubit case. For the qubit partition 1: n case, the behaviors of all correlations are qualitative the same. When the search is over, all kinds of correlations are zero, we argue that this is necessary for the final step in the search.
Abstract We systematically generalize the Grover algorithm in a density matrix formalism by exploiting the underlying two-dimensional subspace of the problem. Using this, we derive analytic expressions for the success probability after arbitrary iterations of the generalized Grover operator with two generic phase angles . We show for the phase matching condition with three iterations, success probability can be achieved only with knowledge about the lower bound , where λ is the ratio of marked to total number of states in the database. This result will improve the quantum search algorithm when applied to databases with unknown number of marked states in the specified regime of λ , at the cost of decreased efficiency in the smaller λ region.
Entanglement lies at the heart of quantum mechanics and has no classical analogue. It is central to the speed up achieved by quantum algorithms over their classical counterparts. The Grover's search algorithm is one such algorithm which enables us to achieve a quadratic speed up over any known classical algorithm that searches for an element in an unstructured database. Here, we analyse and quantify the effects of entanglement in the generalized version of this algorithm for two qubits. By 'generalized', it is meant that the use of any arbitrary single qubit unitary gate is permitted to create superposed states. Our analysis has been firstly on a noise free environment and secondly in the presence of noise. In the absence of noise, we establish a relation between the concurrence and the amplitude of the final state thereby showing the explicit effects of entanglement on the same. Moreover, the effects of noisy channels, namely amplitude and phase damping channels are studied. We investigate the amount of quantum correlation in the states obtained after the phase inversion stage of the algorithm followed by interaction of those states with the noisy environment. The quantum correlations are quantified by geometric discord. It has been revealed that the states generated after the effect of amplitude damping on the phase inverted states of the quantum search algorithm possess non-zero quantum correlation even when entanglement is absent. However, this is absent in the phase damping scenario.
We investigate the role of quantum coherence depletion (QCD) in the Grover search algorithm (GA) by using several typical measures of quantum coherence and quantum correlations. By using the relative entropy of coherence measure (Cr{\mathcal{C}}_{r}Cr​), we show that the success probability depends on the QCD. The same phenomenon is also found by using the l1{l}_{1}l1​ norm of coherence measure (Cl1{\mathcal{C}}_{{l}_{1}}Cl1​​). In the limit case, the cost performance is defined to characterize the behavior about QCD in enhancing the success probability of GA, which is only related to the number of searcher items and the scale of the database, regardless of using Cr{\mathcal{C}}_{r}Cr​ or Cl1{\mathcal{C}}_{{l}_{1}}Cl1​​. In the generalized Grover search algorithm (GGA), the QCD for a class of states increases with the required optimal measurement time. In comparison, the quantification of other quantum correlations in GA, such as pairwise entanglement, multipartite entanglement, pairwise discord, and genuine multipartite discord, cannot be directly related to the success probability or the optimal measurement time. Additionally, we do not detect pairwise nonlocality or genuine tripartite nonlocality in GA since Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality and Svetlichny's inequality are not violated.
Grover's search algorithm is the optimal quantum algorithm that can search an unstructured database quadratically faster than any known classical algorithm. The role of entanglement and correlations in the search algorithm have been studied in great detail and it is known that entanglement between the qubits is necessary to gain a quadratic speedup, for pure state implementation of the Grover search algorithm. Here, we systematically investigate the behavior of quantum coherence and monogamy of entanglement in the discrete analogue of the analog analogue of Grover search algorithm\textit{analog analogue of Grover search algorithm}analog analogue of Grover search algorithm. The analog analogue of Grover search is a continuous time quantum algorithm based on the adiabatic Hamiltonian evolution that gives a quadratic speedup, similar to the original Grover search algorithm. We show that the decrease of quantum coherence, quantified using various coherence monotones, is a clear signature of attaining the maximum success probability in the analog Grover search. We also show that for any two qubit reduced density matrix of the system, the concurrence evolves in close vicinity to the increasing rate of success probability. Furthermore, we show that the system satisfies a nnn-party monogamy inequality for arbitrary times, hence bounding the amount of nnn-qubit entanglement during the quantum search.