Quantum computers promise a dramatic speed-up for one of computing’s oldest problems: finding a specific item hidden inside an unstructured database. Since Lov Grover introduced his celebrated search algorithm in 1996, researchers have known that a quantum machine can locate a single marked entry among N possibilities in roughly the square root of N steps, […]
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