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We study a class of symmetric quantum walks on Hamming graphs, where the distance between vertices specifies the transition probability. A special model is the simple quantum walk on the hypercube, which has been discussed in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Robert Griffiths , Shuhei Mano

Quantum versions of random walks on the line and the cycle show a quadratic improvement over classical random walks in their spreading rates and mixing times respectively. Non-unitary quantum walks can provide a useful optimisation of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-25 Viv Kendon , Olivier Maloyer

We present a mathematical formalism for the description of unrestricted quantum walks with entangled coins and one walker. The numerical behaviour of such walks is examined when using a Bell state as the initial coin state, two different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. E. Venegas-Andraca , J. L. Ball , K. Burnett , S. Bose

We discuss a particular kind of quantum walk on a general graph. We affix two semi-infinite lines to a general finite graph, which we call tails. On the tails, the particle making the walk simply advances one unit at each time step, so that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-15 Edgar Feldman , Mark Hillery

A connection between the asymptotic behavior of the open quantum walk and the spectrum of a generalized quantum coins is studied. For the case of simultaneously diagonalizable transition operators an exact expression for probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-07 I. Sinayskiy , F. Petruccione

Open quantum walks often lead to a classical asymptotic behavior. Here, we look for a simple open quantum walk whose asymptotic behavior can be non-classical. We consider a discrete-time quantum walk on n-cycle subject to a random…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Adam S. Sajna , Tomasz P. Polak , Antoni Wojcik , Pawel Kurzynski

In all existing quantum walk models, the assumption about a pre-existing fixed background causal structure is always made and has been taken for granted. Nevertheless, in this work we will get rid of this tacit assumption especially by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Yuanbo Chen , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

In this paper, we study quantum walks on the extension of association schemes. Various state transfers can be achieved on these graphs, such as multiple state transfer among extreme points of a simplex, fractional revival on subsimplexes.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-28 Hiroshi Miki , Satoshi Tsujimoto , Da Zhao

We introduce an analytically treatable spin decoherence model for quantum walk on a line that yields the exact position probability distribution of an unbiased classical random walk at all-time scales. This spin decoherence model depicts a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Mahesh N. Jayakody , Asiri Nanayakkara

We investigate the use of discrete-time quantum walks to sample from an almost-uniform distribution, in the absence of any external source of randomness. Integers are encoded on the vertices of a cycle graph, and a quantum walker evolves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 Marco Radaelli , Claudia Benedetti , Stefano Olivares

Discrete-time quantum walks are well-known for exhibiting localization, a quantum phenomenon where the walker remains at its initial location with high probability. In companion with a joint Letter, we introduce oscillatory localization,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Andris Ambainis , Krišjānis Prūsis , Jevgēnijs Vihrovs , Thomas G. Wong

Coherent evolution governs the behaviour of all quantum systems, but in nature it is often subjected to influence of a classical environment. For analysing quantum transport phenomena quantum walks emerge as suitable model systems. In…

Quantum walks and random walks bear similarities and divergences. One of the most remarkable disparities affects the probability of finding the particle at a given location: typically, almost a flat function in the first case and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-21 Miquel Montero

A continuous-time quantum walk on a graph is a matrix-valued function $\exp(-\mathtt{i} At)$ over the reals, where $A$ is the adjacency matrix of the graph. Such a quantum walk has universal perfect state transfer if for all vertices $u,v$,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-20 Erin Connelly , Nathaniel Grammel , Michael Kraut , Luis Serazo , Christino Tamon

Quantum walks behave differently from what we expect and their probability distributions have unique structures. They have localization, singularities, a gap, and so on. Those features have been discovered from the view point of mathematics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-05 Takuya Machida

We show that the coined quantum walk on a line can be understood as an interference phenomenon, can be classically implemented, and indeed already has been. The walk is essentially two independent walks associated with the different coin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Peter L. Knight , Eugenio Roldan , J. E. Sipe

It is recently shown by Asahara-Funakawa-Seki-Tanaka that existing index theory for chirally symmetric (discrete-time) quantum walks can be extended to the setting of non-unitary quantum walks. More precisely, they consider a certain…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 Chusei Kiumi , Kei Saito , Yohei Tanaka

We study quantum walk on a ladder with combination of conventional and split-step protocols. The two components of the walk resulting from periodic boundary conditions can be made to have three kinds of probability distributions. Two of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-29 Hira Ali , M. Naeem Shahid

In this Chapter, we present some interesting properties of quantum walks on the line. We concentrate our attention in the emergence of invariance and provide some insights into the ultimate origin of the observed behavior. In the first part…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-02 Miquel Montero

Quantum walks are versatile simulators of topological phases and phase transitions as observed in condensed matter physics. Here, we utilize a step dependent coin in quantum walks and investigate what topological phases we can simulate with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-16 S. Panahiyan , S. Fritzsche