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pith:MCD6GF7M

pith:1996:MCD6GF7MZI6S6LFXI2VB6GFIND
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A fast quantum mechanical algorithm for database search

Lov K. Grover (Bell Labs, Murray Hill NJ)

arxiv:quant-ph/9605043 v3 · 1996-05-29 · quant-ph

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17 papers in Pith

Answer Partitions and Oracle Access Determine Quantum Query Complexity
A Quantum-Classical Surrogate Model for the Collision Operator of the Lattice Boltzmann Method
BPBO: Blindness-Preserving Brickwork Optimization by Certified Region Resynthesis
Effect of isotropic errors on the complexity of Grover's algorithm
Ancilla-Efficient QSAMPLE Preparation for Reversible Markov Chains
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Canonical hash

6087e317ecca3d2f2cb746aa1f18a868da8b7836926ef18f8f9e0e4b9e048203

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9605043 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9605043v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9605043 · pith_short_12: MCD6GF7MZI6S · pith_short_16: MCD6GF7MZI6S6LFX · pith_short_8: MCD6GF7M
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Verify this Pith Number yourself 
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MCD6GF7MZI6S6LFXI2VB6GFIND \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 6087e317ecca3d2f2cb746aa1f18a868da8b7836926ef18f8f9e0e4b9e048203
Canonical record JSON 
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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d109d7247ae598938e3b1b4877d1687c5902e420e6ae84997aac5cc0bce22bf5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-05-29T19:09:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6d347ac05f7034ba7d3a47651aaebfd30257a821da01c90f1a3dbd667b7b9c15"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9605043",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}