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Recently, several groups have investigated quantum analogues of random walk algorithms, both on a line and on a circle. It has been found that the quantum versions have markedly different features to the classical versions. Namely, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. C. Travaglione , G. J. Milburn

We introduce the Peierls substitution to a two-dimensional discrete-time quantum walk on a square lattice to examine the spreading dynamics and the coin-position entanglement in the presence of an artificial gauge field. We use the ratio of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 İ. Yalçınkaya , Z. Gedik

We present an efficient general method for realizing a quantum walk operator corresponding to an arbitrary sparse classical random walk. Our approach is based on Grover and Rudolph's method for preparing coherent versions of efficiently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-12 Chen-Fu Chiang , Daniel Nagaj , Pawel Wocjan

Quantum state preparation in high-dimensional systems is an essential requirement for many quantum-technology applications. The engineering of an arbitrary quantum state is, however, typically strongly dependent on the experimental platform…

Quantum walks have proven to be a universal model for quantum computation and to provide speed-up in certain quantum algorithms. The discrete-time quantum walk (DTQW) model, among others, is one of the most suitable candidates for circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Luca Razzoli , Gabriele Cenedese , Maria Bondani , Giuliano Benenti

We introduce the concept of a quantum walk with two particles and study it for the case of a discrete time walk on a line. A quantum walk with more than one particle may contain entanglement, thus offering a resource unavailable in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Omar , N. Paunkovic , L. Sheridan , S. Bose

We investigate the ballistic spreading behavior of the one-dimensional discrete time quantum walks whose time evolution is driven by any balanced quantum coin. We obtain closed-form expressions for the long-time variance of position of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-07 Alexandre C. Orthey , Edgard P. M. Amorim

Discrete-time quantum walks are considered a counterpart of random walks and the study for them has been getting attention since around 2000. In this paper, we focus on a quantum walk which generates a probability distribution splitting to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-08 Takuya Machida

The dynamics of a one dimensional quantum walker on the lattice with two internal degrees of freedom, the coin states, is considered. The discrete time unitary dynamics is determined by the repeated action of a coin operator in U(2) on the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-04-26 Alain Joye , Marco Merkli

The evolution of a walker in standard "Discrete-time Quantum Walk (DTQW)" is determined by coin and shift unitary operators. The conditional shift operator shifts the position of the walker to right or left by unit step size while the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-03 Rashid Ahmad , Safia Bibi , Uzma Sajjad

The quantum walk (QW) is the term given to a family of algorithms governing the evolution of a discrete quantum system and as such has a founding role in the study of quantum computation. We contribute to the investigation of QW phenomena…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-02 Hao Luo , Peng Xue

We present an experimental implementation of the coined discrete time quantum walk on a square using a three qubit liquid state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) quantum information processor (QIP). Contrary to its classical counterpart, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. A. Ryan , M. Laforest , J. C. Boileau , R. Laflamme

We demonstrate a quantum walk with time-dependent coin bias. With this technique we realize an experimental single-photon one-dimensional quantum walk with a linearly-ramped time-dependent coin flip operation and thereby demonstrate two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-11 Peng Xue , Rong Zhang , Hao Qin , Xiang Zhan , Zhihao Bian , Jian Li , Barry C. Sanders

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

It is shown that a standard one-dimensional coined discrete-time quantum walk can generate operationally admissible post-quantum correlations in a coin-position Bell scenario, without any modification of its unitary nearest-neighbor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Marcos C. de Oliveira

Quantum walks have wide applications in quantum information, such as universal quantum computation, so it is important to explore properties of quantum walks thoroughly. We propose a novel method to implement discrete-time quantum walks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-09 Qi-Ping Su , Shi-Chao Wang , Yan Chi , Yong-Nan Sun , Li Yu , Zhe Sun , Franco Nori , Chui-Ping Yang

The quantum random walk has drawn special interests because its remarkable features to the classical counterpart could lead to new quantum algorithms. In this paper, we propose a feasible scheme to implement quantum random walks on a line…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhi Zhao , Jiangfeng Du , Hui Li , Tao Yang , Zeng-Bing Chen , Jian-Wei Pan

A distinctive feature of non-Hermitian systems is the skin effect, which has attracted widespread attention in recent studies. Quantum walks provide a powerful platform for exploring the underlying mechanisms of the non-Hermitian skin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Ding Cheng , Yi Li , Hao Zhao , Haijun Kang , Cui Kong , Jiguo Wang , Feng Mei , Chuanjia Shan , Jibing Liu

The quantum walk is the quantum analogue of the well-known random walk, which forms the basis for models and applications in many realms of science. Its properties are markedly different from the classical counterpart and might lead to…

This dissertation presents investigations on dynamics of discrete-time quantum walk and some of its applications. Quantum walks has been exploited as an useful tool for quantum algorithms in quantum computing. Beyond quantum computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-25 C. M. Chandrashekar