Library
References
Every citation on the site points at one of these records. The record is a pointer to the paper, plus a note on what this library uses it for.
Quantum algorithms is the guide. The complexity table is the row-by-row comparison.
- Suzuki, M. (1991). General theory of fractal path integrals with applications to many-body theories and statistical physics. Journal of Mathematical Physics, 32(2), 400–407.
- Deutsch, D., & Jozsa, R. (1992). Rapid solution of problems by quantum computation. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 439, 553–558.
- Shor, P. W. (1994). Algorithms for quantum computation: Discrete logarithms and factoring. In Proceedings of the 35th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (pp. 124–134). IEEE.
- Goemans, M. X., & Williamson, D. P. (1995). Improved approximation algorithms for maximum cut and satisfiability problems using semidefinite programming. Journal of the ACM, 42(6), 1115–1145.
- Kitaev, A. Yu. (1995). Quantum measurements and the Abelian stabilizer problem. arXiv:quant-ph/9511026.
- Shor, P. W. (1995). Scheme for reducing decoherence in quantum computer memory. Physical Review A, 52(4), R2493–R2496.
- Grover, L. K. (1996). A fast quantum mechanical algorithm for database search. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (pp. 212–219). ACM.
- Lloyd, S. (1996). Universal quantum simulators. Science, 273(5278), 1073–1078.
- Bennett, C. H., Bernstein, E., Brassard, G., & Vazirani, U. (1997). Strengths and weaknesses of quantum computing. SIAM Journal on Computing, 26(5), 1510–1523.
- Bernstein, E., & Vazirani, U. (1997). Quantum complexity theory. SIAM Journal on Computing, 26(5), 1411–1473.
- Grover, L. K. (1997). Quantum mechanics helps in searching for a needle in a haystack. Physical Review Letters, 79(2), 325–328.
- Shor, P. W. (1997). Polynomial-time algorithms for prime factorization and discrete logarithms on a quantum computer. SIAM Journal on Computing, 26(5), 1484–1509.
- Simon, D. R. (1997). On the power of quantum computation. SIAM Journal on Computing, 26(5), 1474–1483.
- Boyer, M., Brassard, G., Høyer, P., & Tapp, A. (1998). Tight bounds on quantum searching. Fortschritte der Physik, 46(4–5), 493–505.
- Brassard, G., Høyer, P., & Tapp, A. (1998). Quantum counting. In Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 1998), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 1443, pp. 820–831).
- Cleve, R., Ekert, A., Macchiavello, C., & Mosca, M. (1998). Quantum algorithms revisited. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 454, 339–354.
- Kadowaki, T., & Nishimori, H. (1998). Quantum annealing in the transverse Ising model. Physical Review E, 58, 5355.
- Abrams, D. S., & Lloyd, S. (1999). A quantum algorithm providing exponential speed increase for finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Physical Review Letters, 83, 5162–5165.
- Brassard, G., Høyer, P., Mosca, M., & Tapp, A. (2002). Quantum amplitude amplification and estimation. In Quantum Computation and Information, Contemporary Mathematics (Vol. 305, pp. 53–74). American Mathematical Society.
- Proos, J., & Zalka, C. (2003). Shor's discrete logarithm quantum algorithm for elliptic curves. Quantum Information and Computation, 3(4), 317–344.
- Shenvi, N., Kempe, J., & Whaley, K. B. (2003). Quantum random-walk search algorithm. Physical Review A, 67, 052307.
- Aspuru-Guzik, A., Dutoi, A. D., Love, P. J., & Head-Gordon, M. (2005). Simulated quantum computation of molecular energies. Science, 309(5741), 1704–1707.
- Harrow, A. W., Hassidim, A., & Lloyd, S. (2009). Quantum algorithm for linear systems of equations. Physical Review Letters, 103(15), 150502.
- Nielsen, M. A., & Chuang, I. L. (2010). Quantum computation and quantum information (10th anniversary ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- Belovs, A. (2013). Quantum algorithms for learning symmetric juntas via the adversary bound. arXiv:1311.6777.
- Farhi, E., Goldstone, J., & Gutmann, S. (2014). A quantum approximate optimization algorithm. arXiv:1411.4028.
- Peruzzo, A., McClean, J., Shadbolt, P., Yung, M.-H., Zhou, X.-Q., Love, P. J., Aspuru-Guzik, A., & O'Brien, J. L. (2014). A variational eigenvalue solver on a photonic quantum processor. Nature Communications, 5, 4213.
- Aaronson, S. (2015). Read the fine print. Nature Physics, 11(4), 291–293.
- Berry, D. W., Childs, A. M., Cleve, R., Kothari, R., & Somma, R. D. (2015). Simulating Hamiltonian dynamics with a truncated Taylor series. Physical Review Letters, 114, 090502.
- McClean, J. R., Romero, J., Babbush, R., & Aspuru-Guzik, A. (2016). The theory of variational hybrid quantum-classical algorithms. New Journal of Physics, 18, 023023.
- Childs, A. M., Kothari, R., & Somma, R. D. (2017). Quantum algorithm for systems of linear equations with exponentially improved dependence on precision. SIAM Journal on Computing, 46(6), 1920–1950.
- Kandala, A., Mezzacapo, A., Temme, K., Takita, M., Brink, M., Chow, J. M., & Gambetta, J. M. (2017). Hardware-efficient variational quantum eigensolver for small molecules and quantum magnets. Nature, 549, 242–246.
- Low, G. H., & Chuang, I. L. (2017). Optimal Hamiltonian simulation by quantum signal processing. Physical Review Letters, 118, 010501.
- Gilyén, A., Lloyd, S., & Tang, E. (2018). Quantum-inspired low-rank stochastic regression with logarithmic dependence on the dimension. arXiv:1811.04909.
- McClean, J. R., Boixo, S., Smelyanskiy, V. N., Babbush, R., & Neven, H. (2018). Barren plateaus in quantum neural network training landscapes. Nature Communications, 9, 4812.
- Preskill, J. (2018). Quantum computing in the NISQ era and beyond. Quantum, 2, 79.
- Gilyén, A., Su, Y., Low, G. H., & Wiebe, N. (2019). Quantum singular value transformation and beyond: Exponential improvements for quantum matrix arithmetics. In Proceedings of the 51st Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing (pp. 193–204).
- Hadfield, S., Wang, Z., O'Gorman, B., Rieffel, E. G., Venturelli, D., & Biswas, R. (2019). From the quantum approximate optimization algorithm to a quantum alternating operator ansatz. Algorithms, 12(2), 34.
- Low, G. H., & Chuang, I. L. (2019). Hamiltonian simulation by qubitization. Quantum, 3, 163.
- Childs, A. M., Su, Y., Tran, M. C., Wiebe, N., & Zhu, S. (2021). Theory of Trotter error with commutator scaling. Physical Review X, 11, 011020.
- Gidney, C., & Ekerå, M. (2021). How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers in 8 hours using 20 million noisy qubits. Quantum, 5, 433.
- Berry, D. W., Wan, K., Baczewski, A. D., Eklund, E. C., Tikku, A., & Babbush, R. (2025). Quantum simulation of electronic structure via quantum fast multipole method. arXiv:2510.07380.
- Gidney, C. (2025). How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers with less than a million noisy qubits. arXiv:2505.15917.
- Cai, J.-Y., & Young, B. (2026). A sharp noise threshold for Shor's quantum factoring and discrete log algorithms. arXiv:2609.24316.
- Günther, J., & Harrow, A. W. (2026). Sublinear-depth quantum simulation of electrons with atomic orbitals. arXiv:2610.00950.
- Krivcenko, A., Nguyen, T., & de Wolf, R. (2026). Fast quantum algorithms for learning linear threshold functions. arXiv:2609.40331.