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Isotropic quantum walks on lattices and the Weyl equation

Quantum Physics 2017-12-05 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We present a thorough classification of the isotropic quantum walks on lattices of dimension d=1,2,3d=1,2,3 for cell dimension s=2s=2. For d=3d=3 there exist two isotropic walks, namely the Weyl quantum walks presented in Ref. [G. M. D'Ariano and P. Perinotti, Phys. Rev. A 90, 062106 (2014)], resulting in the derivation of the Weyl equation from informational principles. The present analysis, via a crucial use of isotropy, is significantly shorter and avoids a superfluous technical assumption, making the result completely general.

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@article{arxiv.1708.00826,
  title  = {Isotropic quantum walks on lattices and the Weyl equation},
  author = {Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano and Marco Erba and Paolo Perinotti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.00826},
  year   = {2017}
}

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16 pages, 1 figure