On Jul 27, 2013, at 9:29 PM, Russell Leidich <pke...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is this to be taken seriously...
> 
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Seth Lloyd claims to have 
> developed a quantum search algo which can search 2^N (presumably unsorted) 
> records in O(N) time.

Grover’s original paper included a proof that his result was near a lower bound.

I don’t understand QM well enough (my linear algebra sucks) to have understood 
the proof sufficiently to see clearly what assumptions it relies on.

Cheers,

-j
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