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most citedRobust Quantum Walk Search Without Knowing the Number of Marked Vertices

18 citations · 25 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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quant-ph2026

Quantum Approximate Counting with Bernoulli Oracles

Chengshen Gao, Yongzhen Xu, Lvzhou Li

Quantum counting is a fundamental quantum algorithm that estimates the fraction of marked elements using a membership oracle, achieving a quadratic speedup over classical sampling.…

quant-ph2026

Quantum Speedups for Testing Similar Means

Chengshen Gao, Yongzhen Xu, Shenggen Zheng +1

Property testing of distributions is a central topic in information theory, learning theory, and statistics. While quantum algorithms are known to offer significant speedups for pr…

quant-ph2026

Exponential quantum space advantage for Shannon entropy estimation in data streams

Weijun Feng, Yongzhen Xu, Lvzhou Li +2

Near-term quantum devices with limited qubits motivate the study of space-bounded quantum computation in the data stream model. We show that Shannon entropy estimation exhibits an…

quant-ph2022★ 3 cited

Playing Mastermind on quantum computers

Lvzhou Li, Jingquan Luo, Yongzhen Xu

From the 1970s up to now, Mastermind, a classic two-player game, has attracted plenty of attention, not only from the public as a popular game, but also from the academic community…

quant-ph2022★ 4 cited

Quantum algorithm for learning secret strings and its experimental demonstration

Yongzhen Xu, Shihao Zhang, Lvzhou Li

In this paper, we consider the secret-string-learning problem in the teacher-student setting: the teacher has a secret string , and the student wants to learn t…

quant-ph2021★ 18 cited

Robust Quantum Walk Search Without Knowing the Number of Marked Vertices

Yongzhen Xu, Delong Zhang, Lvzhou Li

There has been a very large body of research on searching a marked vertex on a graph based on quantum walks, and Grover's algorithm can be regarded as a quantum walk-based search a…

quant-ph2018

A Note on "Quantum Algorithm for Linear Systems of Equations"

Yong-Zhen Xu, Yifan Huang, Zekun Ye +1

Recently, an efficient quantum algorithm for linear systems of equations introduced by Harrow, Hassidim, and Lloyd, has received great concern from the academic community. However,…