Grover's Algorithm Offers No Quantum Advantage

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11317v1
• Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:56:20 GMT
• Title: Grover's Algorithm Offers No Quantum Advantage
• Authors: E.M. Stoudenmire and Xavier Waintal
• Abstract summary: Grover's algorithm is one of the primary algorithms offered as evidence that quantum computers can provide an advantage over classical computers. We construct a quantum inspired algorithm, executable on a classical computer, that performs Grover's task in linear number of call to the oracle. We critically examine the possibility of a practical speedup, a possibility that depends on the nature of the quantum circuit associated with the oracle.
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• Abstract: Grover's algorithm is one of the primary algorithms offered as evidence that quantum computers can provide an advantage over classical computers. It involves an "oracle" (external quantum subroutine) which must be specified for a given application and whose internal structure is not part of the formal scaling of the quantum speedup guaranteed by the algorithm. Grover's algorithm also requires exponentially many steps to succeed, raising the question of its implementation on near-term, non-error-corrected hardware and indeed even on error-corrected quantum computers. In this work, we construct a quantum inspired algorithm, executable on a classical computer, that performs Grover's task in a linear number of call to the oracle - an exponentially smaller number than Grover's algorithm - and demonstrate this algorithm explicitly for boolean satisfiability problems (3-SAT). Our finding implies that there is no a priori theoretical quantum speedup associated with Grover's algorithm. We critically examine the possibility of a practical speedup, a possibility that depends on the nature of the quantum circuit associated with the oracle. We argue that the unfavorable scaling of the success probability of Grover's algorithm, which in the presence of noise decays as the exponential of the exponential of the number of qubits, makes a practical speedup unrealistic even under extremely optimistic assumptions on both hardware quality and availability.

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