https://doi.org/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-025-00396-5
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A note on “On validity of quantum partial adiabatic search”
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School of Internet, Anhui University, 230039, Hefei, China
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National Engineering Research Center of Agro-Ecological Big Data Analysis and Application, Anhui University, 230601, Hefei, China
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Fin China-Anhui University Joint Laboratory for Financial Big Data Research, Hefei Financial China Information & Technology Co., Ltd., 230022, Hefei, China
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Received:
15
July
2025
Accepted:
25
July
2025
Published online:
6
August
2025
In this note, we clarify a small problem concerning our recent work “On validity of quantum partial adiabatic search”. The conclusion here is that, the success probability of the quantum partial adiabatic search algorithm in the paper indeed can be bounded by the same quantity as that of early work of Kay’s, even though the Hamiltonian settings in those works are different. This fact is not mentioned in our prior paper, so the purpose here is to explicitly point it out for clarity.
Key words: Success probability / Time complexity / Quantum partial adiabatic evolution / Quantum computation
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