Reducing Circuit Resources in Grover's Algorithm via Constraint-Aware Initialization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.17725v1
• Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2026 07:31:06 GMT
• Title: Reducing Circuit Resources in Grover's Algorithm via Constraint-Aware Initialization
• Authors: Eunok Bae, Jeonghyeon Shin, Minjin Choi,
• Abstract summary: Grover's search algorithm provides a quadratic speedup over classical brute-force search in terms of query complexity.<n>We present a systematic framework with a simple preprocessing procedure for constraint-aware initializes in Grover's algorithm.<n>Our results indicate that this approach serves as a practical baseline for achieving more resource-efficient implementations of Grover's algorithm.
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• Abstract: Grover's search algorithm provides a quadratic speedup over classical brute-force search in terms of query complexity and is widely used as a versatile subroutine in numerous quantum algorithms, including those for combinatorial problems with large search spaces. For such problems, it is natural to reduce the effective search space by incorporating problem constraints at the initialization step, which in Grover's algorithm can be achieved by preparing structured initial states that encode constraint information. In this work, we present a systematic framework with a simple preprocessing procedure for constraint-aware initialization in Grover's algorithm, focusing on problems with linear constraints. While such structured initial states can reduce the number of oracle queries required to obtain a solution, their preparation incurs additional circuit-level costs. We therefore offer a conservative circuit-level resource analysis, showing that the resulting constraint-aware initialization can improve resource efficiency in terms of gate counts and circuit depth. The validity of the framework is further demonstrated numerically using the exact-cover problem. Overall, our results indicate that this approach serves as a practical baseline for achieving more resource-efficient implementations of Grover's algorithm compared to the standard uniform initialization.

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