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Driving quantum walk spreading with the coin operator

Quantum Physics 2015-05-13 v2

Abstract

We generalize the discrete quantum walk on the line using a time dependent unitary coin operator. We find an analytical relation between the long-time behaviors of the standard deviation and the coin operator. Selecting the coin time sequence allows to obtain a variety of predetermined asymptotic wave-function spreadings: ballistic, sub-ballistic, diffusive, sub-diffusive and localized.

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@article{arxiv.0908.0019,
  title  = {Driving quantum walk spreading with the coin operator},
  author = {Alejandro Romanelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.0019},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

6 pages, 3 figures, appendix added. to appear in PRA

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