Editing Lov Grover

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'''Lov Kumar Grover''' (born 1961) is an [[India]]n-[[Americans|American]] computer scientist. He is the originator of the [[Grover's algorithm|Grover database search algorithm]] used in [[quantum computing]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Quantum Leap in Searching |url=https://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2000/05/36574 |access-date=19 July 2010 |newspaper=Wired |date=25 July 2000 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110703044742/http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2000/05/36574 |archive-date=July 3, 2011 }}</ref>  Grover's 1996 algorithm won renown as the second major algorithm proposed for [[quantum computing]] (after [[Shor's algorithm|Shor's 1994 algorithm]]),<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/story/wired-guide-to-quantum-computing/|title=The Wired Guide to Quantum Computing|last=Simonite|first=Tom|date=2018-08-24|magazine=Wired|access-date=2019-01-22|issn=1059-1028}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-computers-struggle-against-classical-algorithms-20180201/|title=The Ongoing Battle Between Quantum and Classical Computers|last=Bleicher|first=Ariel|date=2018-02-19|magazine=Wired|access-date=2019-01-22|issn=1059-1028}}</ref> and in 2017 was finally implemented in a scalable physical quantum system.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604068/quantum-computing-now-has-a-powerful-search-tool/|title=The first quantum search algorithm on a scalable quantum computer has important implications|author=Emerging Technology from the arXiv|website=MIT Technology Review|language=en|access-date=2019-01-22}}</ref>  [[Grover's algorithm]] has been the subject of numerous popular science articles.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hackaday.com/2018/02/07/quantum-searching-in-your-browser/|title=Quantum Searching in Your Browser|last=By|date=2018-02-07|website=Hackaday|language=en|access-date=2019-01-22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.infoq.com/articles/quantum-computing-applications-three|title=Cats, Qubits, and Teleportation: The Spooky World of Quantum Computation Applications (Part 3)|website=InfoQ|access-date=2019-01-22}}</ref>

== Life ==
Lov Kumar Grover was born in [[Meerut]], India in 1961.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pathak |first=Anirban |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cEPSBQAAQBAJ&dq=lov+kumar+grover&pg=PA179 |title=Elements of Quantum Computation and Quantum Communication |date=2013-06-20 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-4665-1792-9 |language=en}}</ref>
Grover received his bachelor's degree from the [[Indian Institute of Technology Delhi|Indian Institute of Technology]], Delhi in 1981<ref name="IITD">{{cite web |title=Dr Lov K. Grover |url=https://alumni.iitd.ac.in/home/index.php/2021/10/21/dr-lov-k-grover |access-date=10 November 2021 |work=Alumni Affairs, IITD}}</ref> and his PhD in Electrical engineering from [[Stanford University]] in 1985.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Grover |first=L. K. |date=1985-12-01 |title=New concepts in free electron lasers |journal=Ph.D. Thesis |bibcode=1985PhDT........18G}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Grover |first1=Lov |last2=Pantell |first2=R. |date=July 1985 |title=Simplified analysis of free-electron lasers using Madey's theorem |journal=IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics |volume=21 |issue=7 |pages=944–951 |bibcode=1985IJQE...21..944G |doi=10.1109/JQE.1985.1072775 |issn=0018-9197}}</ref> In 1984, he went to [[Bell Labs|Bell Laboratories]].  He worked as a visiting professor at [[Cornell University]] from 1987 to 1994.<ref name="IITD" /> He retired in 2008 becoming an independent researcher.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-10-14 |title=Dr. Lov Grover: Is Quantum Searching a Universal Property of Nature? |url=https://datascience.columbia.edu/event/dr-lov-grover-is-quantum-searching-a-universal-property-of-nature/ |access-date=2022-03-27 |website=Columbia University |language=en}}</ref>

==Publications==
* Grover L.K.: ''[https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9605043 A fast quantum mechanical algorithm for database search]'', Proceedings, 28th Annual ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing, (May 1996) p.&nbsp;212
* Grover L.K.: ''[https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0109116 From Schrödinger's equation to quantum search algorithm]'', American Journal of Physics, 69(7): 769–777, 2001. Pedagogical review of the algorithm and its history.
* Grover L.K.: [https://cryptome.org/qc-grover.htm Quantum Computing: How the weird logic of the subatomic world could make it possible for machines to calculate millions of times faster than they do today] ''The Sciences'', July/August 1999, pp.&nbsp;24–30.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140201230754/http://www.bell-labs.com/user/feature/archives/lkgrover/ What's a Quantum Phone Book?], Lov Grover, Lucent Technologies

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