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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 88, Issue 13, Pages -Publisher
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.137901
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We report on an experiment on Grover's quantum search algorithm showing that classical waves can search a N-item database as efficiently as quantum mechanics can. The transverse beam pro le of a short laser pulse is processed iteratively as the pulse bounces back and forth between two mirrors. We directly observe the sought item being found in similar torootN iterations, in the form of a growing intensity peak on this profile. Although the lack of quantum entanglement limits the size of our database, our results show that entanglement is neither necessary for the algorithm itself, nor for its efficiency.
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