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Three myths about quantum computing
In this series of posts I will discuss some misconceptions about quantum computing. One often hears people saying that quantum physics is “strange” and that our classical intuition “breaks down” in the...
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Three myths about quantum computing — Part 1: Exponential size state space
This is the first post in the series on myths about quantum computing. In this post I will discuss the first misconception about quantum computers—that the exponential size of their state space is the...
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Exact quantum query algorithms
Andris Ambainis, Jānis Iraids, and Juris Smotrovs recently have obtained some interesting quantum query algorithms [AIS13]. In this blog post I will explain my understanding of their result. Throughout...
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Quantum walks can find a marked element on any graph
This post is about my paper Quantum walks can find a marked element on any graph with Hari Krovi, Frédéric Magniez, and Jérémie Roland. We wrote it in 2010, but after spotting a subtle mistake in the...
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