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The theory of quantum thermodynamics investigates how the concepts of heat, work, and temperature can be carried over to the quantum realm, where fluctuations and randomness are fundamentally unavoidable. These lecture notes provide an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Patrick P. Potts

The discrete time quantum walk which is a quantum counterpart of random walk plays important roles in the theory of quantum information theory. In the present paper, we focus on discrete time quantum walks viewed as quantization of random…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-13 Yusuke Ide , Norio Konno , Etsuo Segawa

The split step quantum walk for two noninteracting particles is numerically simulated. The entropy of entanglement and spatial particle distributions are calculated for a range of initial states and for a range of disorder. The impact of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-06 Samuel Huberman

When a non-integrable system evolves out of equilibrium for a long time, local observables are expected to attain stationary expectation values, independent of the details of the initial state. However, intriguing experimental results with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-17 Mari Carmen Bañuls , J. Ignacio Cirac , Matthew B. Hastings

We investigate variational problems in quantum thermodynamics at positive temperature, in which admissible states are constrained by prescribed outcomes of a finite set of measurements. We solve a problem raised by the recent work [Liu,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Emanuele Caputo , Augusto Gerolin , Nataliia Monina , Pavlo Pelikh , Lorenzo Portinale

Quantum open systems evolve according to completely positive, trace preserving maps acting on the density operator, which can equivalently be unraveled in term of so-called quantum trajectories. These stochastic sequences of pure states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Cyril Elouard , Hamed Mohammady

We treat a quantum walk (QW) on the line whose quantum coin at each vertex tends to be the identity as the distance goes to infinity. We obtain a limit theorem that this QW exhibits localization with not an exponential but a "power-law"…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-05-08 Norio Konno , Etsuo Segawa

We consider quantum random walks on congested lattices and contrast them to classical random walks. Congestion is modelled with lattices that contain static defects which reverse the walker's direction. We implement a dephasing process…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-28 Keith R. Motes , Alexei Gilchrist , Peter P. Rohde

We investigate if the degradation of a quantum directional reference frame through repeated use can be modeled as a classical direction undergoing a random walk on a sphere. We demonstrate that the behaviour of the fidelity for a degrading…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-10-10 Stephen D. Bartlett , Terry Rudolph , Barry C. Sanders , Peter S. Turner

Random walks are fundamental models of stochastic processes with applications in various fields including physics, biology, and computer science. We study classical and quantum random walks under the influence of stochastic resetting on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-20 Sascha Wald , Lucas Böttcher

We present an introduction to coined quantum walks on regular graphs, which have been developed in the past few years as an alternative to quantum Fourier transforms for underpinning algorithms for quantum computation. We then describe our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Viv Kendon , Ben Tregenna

Quantum walks are widely and successfully used to model diverse physical processes. This leads to computation of the models, to explore their properties. Quantum walks have also been shown to be universal for quantum computing. This is a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Viv Kendon

Based on studies on four specific networks, we conjecture a general relation between the walk dimensions $d_{w}$ of discrete-time random walks and quantum walks with the (self-inverse) Grover coin. In each case, we find that $d_{w}$ of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 Stefan Boettcher , Stefan Falkner , Renato Portugal

We investigate the quantum walk on the line when decoherences are introduced either through simultaneous measurements of the chirality and particle position, or as a result of broken links. Both mechanisms drive the system to a classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Romanelli , R. Siri , G. Abal , A. Auyuanet , R. Donangelo

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 study a class of non-reversible, continuous-time random walks in random environments on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ that admit a cycle representation with finite cycle length. The law of the transition rates, taking values in $[0, \infty)$, is…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Jean-Dominique Deuschel , Martin Slowik , Weile Weng

We construct a new type of quantum walks on simplicial complexes as a natural extension of the well-known Szegedy walk on graphs. One can numerically observe that our proposing quantum walks possess linear spreading and localization as in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-08-05 Kaname Matsue , Osamu Ogurisu , Etsuo Segawa

We suggest a theoretical scheme for the simulation of quantum random walks on a line using beam splitters, phase shifters and photodetectors. Our model enables us to simulate a quantum random walk with use of the wave nature of classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Jeong , M. Paternostro , M. S. Kim

In this paper, we consider the quantum walk on $\mathbb{Z}$ with attachment of one-length path periodically. This small modification to $\mathbb{Z}$ provides localization of the quantum walk. The eigenspace causing this localization is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-02 Yusuke Higuchi , Etsuo Segawa

The development of quantum walks in the context of quantum computation, as generalisations of random walk techniques, led rapidly to several new quantum algorithms. These all follow unitary quantum evolution, apart from the final…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-02 Viv Kendon