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Lackadaisical quantum walks on 2D grids with multiple marked vertices

Quantum Physics 2021-10-27 v1

Abstract

Lackadaisical quantum walk (LQW) is a quantum analog of a classical lazy walk, where each vertex has a self-loop of weight ll. For a regular N×N\sqrt{N}\times\sqrt{N} 2D grid LQW can find a single marked vertex with O(1)O(1) probability in O(NlogN)O(\sqrt{N\log N}) steps using l=d/Nl = d/N, where dd is the degree of the vertices of the grid. For multiple marked vertices, however, l=d/Nl = d/N is not optimal as the success probability decreases with the increase of the number of marked vertices. In this paper, we numerically study search by LQW for different types of 2D grids -- triangular, rectangular and honeycomb -- with multiple marked vertices. We show that in all cases the weight l=md/Nl = m\cdot d/N, where mm is the number of marked vertices, still leads to O(1)O(1) success probability.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2104.09955,
  title  = {Lackadaisical quantum walks on 2D grids with multiple marked vertices},
  author = {Nikolajs Nahimovs and Raqueline A. M. Santos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.09955},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

14 pages, 8 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2007.13564

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