Invited Talk
Computing by Nature
Thursday, January 24, 8:30 - 10:00
Andris Ambainis
Quantum Random Walks—New Method for Designing Quantum Algorithms
Quantum walks are quantum counterparts of random walks.
In the last 5 years, they have become one of main methods
of designing quantum algorithms. Quantum walk based algorithms
include element distinctness, spatial search, quantum speedup of
Markov chains, evaluation of Boolean formulas and search on
"glued trees" graph. In this talk, I will describe the quantum
walk method for designing search algorithms and show several
of its applications.
The talk does not require any prior background in quantum information or
quantum physics.