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A quantum walk is a time-homogeneous quantum-mechanical process on a graph defined by analogy to classical random walk. The quantum walker is a particle that moves from a given vertex to adjacent vertices in quantum superposition. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-18 Andrew M. Childs , David Gosset , Zak Webb

Quantum walks are promising tools based on classical random walks, with plenty of applications such as many variants of optimization. Here we introduce the semiclassical walks in discrete time, which are algorithms that combines classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Sergio A. Ortega , Miguel A. Martin-Delgado

Over the recent years, the relatively young field of quantum simulation of lattice gauge theories - aiming at implementing simulators of gauge theories with quantum platforms, has gone through a rapid development process. It is now of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Erez Zohar

This paper presents a realistic, stochastic, and local model that reproduces nonrelativistic quantum mechanics (QM) results without using its mathematical formulation. The proposed model only uses integer-valued quantities and operations on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Antonio Sciarretta

We introduce a quantum algorithm for simulating the time-dependent Dirac equation in 3+1 dimensions using discrete-time quantum walks. Thus far, promising quantum algorithms have been proposed to simulate quantum dynamics in…

By using quantum mechanical effects, quantum computers promise significant speedups in solving problems intractable for conventional computers. However, despite recent progress they remain limited in scaling and availability-making quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-11 Thomas Grurl , Jürgen Fuß , Robert Wille

Quantum walks are expected to provide useful algorithmic tools for quantum computation. This paper introduces absorbing probability and time of quantum walks and gives both numerical simulation results and theoretical analyses on Hadamard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tomohiro Yamasaki , Hirotada Kobayashi , Hiroshi Imai

Lattice field theory, along with its algorithmic and hardware ecosystems, has been at the forefront of computational particle and nuclear physics. It continues to deliver impressive results on the hadronic spectrum, structure, decays, and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-05-21 Zohreh Davoudi

We introduce the quantum stochastic walk (QSW), which determines the evolution of generalized quantum mechanical walk on a graph that obeys a quantum stochastic equation of motion. Using an axiomatic approach, we specify the rules for all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-09 César A. Rodríguez-Rosario , James D. Whitfield , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

It is demonstrated that in gate-based quantum computing architectures quantum walk is a natural mathematical description of quantum gates. It originates from field-matter interaction driving the system, but is not attached to specific qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-08 Dmitry Solenov

We present a review of photonic implementations of discrete-time quantum walks (DTQW) in the spatial and temporal domains, based on spatial- and time-multiplexing techniques, respectively. Additionally, we propose a detailed novel scheme…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Leonardo Neves , Graciana Puentes

Discrete time quantum walks are known to be universal for quantum computation. This has been proven by showing that they can simulate a universal quantum gate set. In this paper, we examine computation by quantum walks in terms of language…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-04 Katie Barr , Viv Kendon

In this work we map NISQ-friendly implementations of the non-interacting QCA to a circuit Quantum Electrodynamics (cQED) hardware. We perform both noiseless and noisy simulations of the QCA one particle sector, namely the Quantum Walk, on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Andrea Mammola , Quentin Schaeverbeke , Giuseppe Di Molfetta

From the unitary operator used for implementing two-state discrete-time quantum walk on one-, two- and three- dimensional lattice we obtain a two-component Dirac-like Hamiltonian. In particular, using different pairs of Pauli basis as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-04 C. M. Chandrashekar

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

We discuss decoherence in discrete-time quantum walks in terms of a phenomenological model that distinguishes spin and spatial decoherence. We identify the dominating mechanisms that affect quantum walk experiments realized with neutral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 Andrea Alberti , Wolfgang Alt , Reinhard Werner , Dieter Meschede

The physics of quantum walks on graphs is formulated in Hamiltonian language, both for simple quantum walks and for composite walks, where extra discrete degrees of freedom live at each node of the graph. It is shown how to map between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Andrew P. Hines , P. C. E. Stamp

Non Commutative Geometry (NCG) is considered in the context of a charged particle moving in a uniform magnetic field. The classical and quantum mechanical treatments are revisited and a new marker of NCG is introduced. This marker is then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Fabrice Debbasch

We present an investigation of many-particle quantum walks in systems of non-interacting distinguishable particles. Along with a redistribution of the many-particle density profile we show that the collective evolution of the many-particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-19 C. M. Chandrashekar , Th. Busch

In this paper, we study discrete-time quantum walks on one-dimensional lattices. We find that the coherent dynamics depends on the initial states and coin parameters. For infinite size of lattice, we derive an explicit expression for the…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2015-05-18 Xin-Ping Xu