Finding cliques by quantum adiabatic evolution

نویسندگان

  • Andrew M. Childs
  • Edward Farhi
  • Jeffrey Goldstone
  • Sam Gutmann
چکیده

Quantum adiabatic evolution provides a general technique for the solution of combinatorial search problems on quantum computers. We present the results of a numerical study of a particular application of quantum adiabatic evolution, the problem of finding the largest clique in a random graph. An nvertex random graph has each edge included with probability 1 2 , and a clique is a completely connected subgraph. There is no known classical algorithm that finds the largest clique in a random graph with high probability and runs in a time polynomial in n. For the small graphs we are able to investigate (n ≤ 18), the quantum algorithm appears to require only a quadratic run time.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Quantum Information & Computation

دوره 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2002