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Sparse quantum state preparation is a common subroutine in quantum algorithms, where classical data with few nonzero entries must be loaded into a quantum state. In this work, we consider the Grover-Rudolph algorithm, which has recently…

The pivot algorithm for self-avoiding walks has been implemented in a manner which is dramatically faster than previous implementations, enabling extremely long walks to be efficiently simulated. We explicitly describe the data structures…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-06 Nathan Clisby

We achieve a quantum speed-up of fully polynomial randomized approximation schemes (FPRAS) for estimating partition functions that combine simulated annealing with the Monte-Carlo Markov Chain method and use non-adaptive cooling schedules.…

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

We develop several algorithms for performing quantum phase estimation based on basic measurements and classical post-processing. We present a pedagogical review of quantum phase estimation and simulate the algorithm to numerically determine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-30 Krysta M. Svore , Matthew B. Hastings , Michael Freedman

Quantum walks have emerged as an interesting alternative to the usual circuit model for quantum computing. While still universal for quantum computing, the quantum walk model has very different physical requirements, which lends itself more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Peter P. Rohde , Andreas Schreiber , Martin Stefanak , Igor Jex , Christine Silberhorn

Inspired by the classical phenomenon of random walk, the concept of quantum walk has emerged recently as a powerful platform for the dynamical simulation of complex quantum systems, entanglement production and universal quantum computation.…

We define a discrete-time, coined quantum walk on weighted graphs that is inspired by Szegedy's quantum walk. Using this, we prove that many lackadaisical quantum walks, where each vertex has $l$ integer self-loops, can be generalized to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-26 Thomas G. Wong

A quantum computing algorithm for rhythm generation is presented, which aims to expand and explore quantum computing applications in the arts, particularly in music. The algorithm maps quantum random walk trajectories onto a rhythmspace --…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 María Aguado-Yáñez , Karl Jansen , Daniel Gómez-Marín , Sergi Jordà

Quantum walks are a promising framework that can be used to both understand and implement quantum information processing tasks. The quantum stochastic walk is a recently developed framework that combines the concept of a quantum walk with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-07 Bruno G. Taketani , Luke C. G. Govia , Frank K. Wilhelm

Quantum random walks on graphs have been shown to display many interesting properties, including exponentially fast hitting times when compared with their classical counterparts. However, it is still unclear how to use these novel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Neil Shenvi , Julia Kempe , K. Birgitta Whaley

Quantum walks provide simple models of various fundamental processes. It is pivotal to know when the dynamics underlying a walk lead to quantum advantages just by examining its statistics. A walk with many indistinguishable particles and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-03 Magdalena Stobińska , Peter P. Rohde , Paweł Kurzyński

Rules for quantizing the walker+coin parts of a classical random walk are provided by treating them as interacting quantum systems. A quantum optical random walk (QORW), is introduced by means of a new rule that treats quantum or classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Demosthenes Ellinas , Ioannis Smyrnakis

Continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs) play a crucial role in quantum computing, especially for designing quantum algorithms. However, how to efficiently implement CTQWs is a challenging issue. In this paper, we study implementation of CTQWs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Zhaoyang Chen , Guanzhong Li , Lvzhou Li

We consider discrete-time evolution equations in which the stochastic operator of a classical random walk is replaced by a unitary operator. Such a problem has gained much attention as a framework for coined quantum walks that are essential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-27 Stefan Boettcher , Shanshan Li , Renato Portugal

Continuous-time quantum walk is one of the alternative approaches to quantum computation, where a universal set of quantum gates can be achieved by scattering a quantum walker on some specially-designed structures embedded in a sparse graph…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-11 Fan Wang , Bin Cheng , Zi-Wei Cui , Man-Hong Yung

We build a quantum algorithm which uses the Grover quantum search procedure in order to sample the exact equilibrium distribution of a wide range of classical statistical mechanics systems. The algorithm is based on recently developed exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Nicolas Destainville , Bertrand Georgeot , Olivier Giraud

An ideal quantum walk transitions from one vertex to another with perfect fidelity, but in physical systems, the particle may be hindered by potential energy barriers. Then the particle has some amplitude of tunneling through the barriers,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-10 Thomas G. Wong

We present the first linear time complexity randomized algorithms for unbiased approximation of the celebrated family of general random walk kernels (RWKs) for sparse graphs. This includes both labelled and unlabelled instances. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Krzysztof Choromanski , Isaac Reid , Arijit Sehanobish , Avinava Dubey

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 use simple deterministic dynamical systems as coins in studying quantum walks. These dynamical systems can be chosen to display, in the classical limit, a range of behaviors from the integrable to chaotic, or deterministically random. As…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arul Lakshminarayan