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This paper studies uniform mixing in continuous-time quantum walks. We show that for some unitary signing $\sigma$, the complete graph $K^\sigma_n$ has probabilistic uniform mixing. In contrast, Ahmadi \etal (2003) proved that no complete…

We present analytical treatment of quantum walks on a cycle graph. The investigation is based on a realistic physical model of the graph in which decoherence is induced by continuous monitoring of each graph vertex with nearby quantum point…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dmitry Solenov , Leonid Fedichkin

We consider quantum walks on the cycle in the non-stationary case where the `coin' operation is allowed to change at each time step. We characterize, in algebraic terms, the set of possible state transfers and prove that, as opposed to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Domenico D'Alessandro , Gianfranco Parlangeli , Francesca Albertini

We present analytical treatment of quantum walks on multidimensional hyper-cycle graphs. We derive the analytical expression of the probability distribution for strong and weak decoherence regimes. Upper bound to mixing time is obtained.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dmitry Solenov , Leonid Fedichkin

When confined to a topological environment consisting of a cycle coupled with a half-line, quantum walks exhibit long-term statistical tendencies which differ dramatically from the tendencies of classical random walks in the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-08 Forrest Ingram-Johnson , Chaobin Liu , Nelson Petulante

In this paper we study continuous-time quantum walks on Cayley graphs of the symmetric group, and prove various facts concerning such walks that demonstrate significant differences from their classical analogues. In particular, we show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Heath Gerhardt , John Watrous

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

Quantum versions of random walks on the line and cycle show a quadratic improvement in their spreading rate and mixing times respectively. The addition of decoherence to the quantum walk produces a more uniform distribution on the line, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-07-26 Olivier Maloyer , Viv Kendon

In the note we show how the choice of the initial states can influence the evolution of time-averaged probability distribution of the quantum walk on even cycles.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Malgorzata Bednarska , Andrzej Grudka , Pawel Kurzynski , Tomasz Luczak , Antoni Wojcik

Quantum walks are known to propagate quadratically faster than their classical counterparts and are used to model dynamics in various quantum systems. The spread of the quantum walk in position space shows anomalous diffusion behavior. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 Abhaya S. Hegde , C. M. Chandrashekar

In the past few decades, quantum algorithms have become a popular research area of both mathematicians and engineers. Among them, uniform mixing provides a uniform probability distribution of quantum information over time which attracts a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Xiwang Cao

The adjacency matrix of a graph G is the Hamiltonian for a continuous-time quantum walk on the vertices of G. Although the entries of the adjacency matrix are integers, its eigenvalues are generally irrational and, because of this, the…

Random walk algorithms are crucial for sampling and approximation problems in statistical physics and theoretical computer science. The mixing property is necessary for Markov chains to approach stationary distributions and is facilitated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-02 Shyam Dhamapurkar , Yuhang Dang , Saniya Wagh , Xiu-Hao Deng

Due to the unitary evolution, quantum walks display different dynamical features from that of classical random walks. In contrast to this expectation, in this work, we show that extreme events can arise in unitary dynamics and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-27 Nisarg Vyas , M. S. Santhanam

We consider asymptotic behaviour of a Hadamard walk on a cycle. For a walk which starts with a state in which all the probability is concentrated on one node, we find the explicit formula for the limiting distribution and discuss its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Malgorzata Bednarska , Andrzej Grudka , Pawel Kurzynski , Tomasz Luczak , Antoni Wojcik

Quantum walks on graphs are ubiquitous in quantum computing finding a myriad of applications. Likewise, random walks on graphs are a fundamental building block for a large number of algorithms with diverse applications. While the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-09 Matheus G. Andrade , Franklin Marquezino , Daniel R. Figueiredo

We introduce a continuous-time quantum walk on an ultrametric space corresponding to the set of p-adic integers and compute its time-averaged probability distribution. It is shown that localization occurs for any location of the ultrametric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-24 Norio Konno

We compare discrete-time quantum walks on graphs to their natural classical equivalents, which we argue are lifted Markov chains, that is, classical Markov chains with added memory. We show that these can simulate quantum walks, allowing us…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Simon Apers , Alain Sarlette , Francesco Ticozzi

Quantum walks on graphs are fundamental to quantum computing and have led to many interesting open problems in algebraic graph theory. This review article highlights three key classes of open problems in this domain; perfect state transfer,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Gabriel Coutinho , Krystal Guo

We establish and generalise several bounds for various random walk quantities including the mixing time and the maximum hitting time. Unlike previous analyses, our derivations are based on rather intuitive notions of local expansion…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Thomas Sauerwald , Luca Zanetti