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Quaternionic quantum walks

Quantum Physics 2015-05-05 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Probability

Abstract

The discrete-time quantum walk (QW) has been extensively and intensively investigated for the last decade, whose coin operator is defined by a unitary matrix. We extend the QW to a walk determined by a unitary matrix whose component is quaternion. We call this model quaternionic quantum walk (QQW) and present some properties. This paper is the first step for the study on QQWs.

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@article{arxiv.1412.3264,
  title  = {Quaternionic quantum walks},
  author = {Norio Konno},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.3264},
  year   = {2015}
}

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15 pages, title changed, revised version

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