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A quantum walk inspired model for distributed computing on arbitrary graphs

Quantum Physics 2025-03-03 v1 Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing

Abstract

A discrete time quantum walk is known to be the single-particle sector of a quantum cellular automaton. For a long time, these models have interested the community for their nice properties such as locality or translation invariance. This work introduces a model of distributed computation for arbitrary graphs inspired by quantum cellular automata. As a by-product, we show how this model can reproduce the dynamic of a quantum walk on graphs. In this context, we investigate the communication cost for two interaction schemes. Finally, we explain how this particular quantum walk can be applied to solve the search problem and present numerical results on different types of topologies.

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@article{arxiv.2502.21232,
  title  = {A quantum walk inspired model for distributed computing on arbitrary graphs},
  author = {Mathieu Roget and Giuseppe Di Molfetta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.21232},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

31 pages, 11 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2310.10451

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