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The enormous successes have been made by quantum algorithms during the last decade. In this paper, we combine the quantum random walk (QRW) with the problem of data clustering, and develop two clustering algorithms based on the one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2008-12-09 Qiang Li , Yan He , Jing-ping Jiang

The theory of diffusion seeks to describe the motion of particles in a chaotic environment. Classical theory models individual particles as independent random walkers, effectively forgetting that particles evolve together in the same…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-02 Jacob Hass , Hindy Drillick , Ivan Corwin , Eric Corwin

Continuous time quantum walks (CTQW) do not necessarily perform better than their classical counterparts, the continuous time random walks (CTRW). For one special graph, where a recent analysis showed that in a particular direction of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Oliver Muelken , Alexander Blumen

Random walks are fundamental tools for analyzing complex networked systems, including social networks, biological systems, and communication infrastructures. While classical random walks focus on pairwise interactions, many real-world…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Anqi Dong , Anzhi Sheng , Xin Mao , Can Chen

In this paper we study the behavior of a continuous time random walk (CTRW) on a stationary and ergodic time varying dynamic graph. We establish conditions under which the CTRW is a stationary and ergodic process. In general, the stationary…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-12-04 Daniel Figueiredo , Philippe Nain , Bruno Ribeiro , Edmundo de Souza e Silva , Don Towsley

We introduce a new framework to analyze quantum algorithms with the renormalization group (RG). To this end, we present a detailed analysis of the real-space RG for discrete-time quantum walks on fractal networks and show how deep insights…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-16 Stefan Boettcher , Shanshan Li

One can view quantum mechanics as a generalization of classical probability theory that provides for pairwise interference among alternatives. Adopting this perspective, we ``quantize'' the classical random walk by finding, subject to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Xavier Martin , Denjoe O'Connor , R. D. Sorkin

A quantum walk places a traverser into a superposition of both graph location and traversal "spin." The walk is defined by an initial condition, an evolution determined by a unitary coin/shift-operator, and a measurement based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 Marko A. Rodriguez , Jennifer H. Watkins

Motivated by an investigation of ground state properties of randomly charged polymers, we discuss the size distribution of the largest Q-segments (segments with total charge Q) in such N-mers. Upon mapping the charge sequence to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Deniz Ertas , Yacov Kantor

Random walks have been intensively studied on regular and complex networks, which are used to represent pairwise interactions. Nonetheless, recent works have demonstrated that many real-world processes are better captured by higher-order…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-06-19 Pietro Traversa , Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda , Yamir Moreno

We study a variant of the Generalized Excited Random Walk (GERW) on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ introduced by Menshikov, Popov, Ram\'irez and Vachkovskaia in [Ann. Probab. 40 (5), 2012]. It consists of a particular version of the model studied in [arXiv…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Rodrigo B. Alves , Giulio Iacobelli , Glauco Valle , Leonel Zuaznábar

We consider the limit behavior of an excited random walk (ERW), i.e., a random walk whose transition probabilities depend on the number of times the walk has visited to the current state. We prove that an ERW being naturally scaled…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-10 Andrey Pilipenko

Intermittent stochastic processes appear in a wide field, such as chemistry, biology, ecology, and computer science. This paper builds up the theory of intermittent continuous time random walk (CTRW) and L\'{e}vy walk, in which the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-20 Tian Zhou , Pengbo Xu , Weihua Deng

We analyze a special class of 1-D quantum walks (QWs) realized using optical multi-ports. We assume non-perfect multi-ports showing errors in the connectivity, i.e. with a small probability the multi- ports can connect not to their nearest…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-06 H. Lavička , V. Potoček , T. Kiss , E. Lutz , I. Jex

We consider activated random walk (ARW), an interacting particle system and prototypical model of self-organized criticality in a setting which combines mean-field behavior with the geometry of an arbitrary graph, which we call the village…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Balázs Ráth , Jacob Richey , Miklós Salánki

Maximization of the entropy rate is an important issue to design diffusion processes aiming at a well-mixed state. We demonstrate that it is possible to construct maximal-entropy random walks with only local information on the graph…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-03-14 Roberta Sinatra , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes , Renaud Lambiotte , Vincenzo Nicosia , Vito Latora

Quantum walks are considered in a one-dimensional random medium characterized by static or dynamic disorder. Quantum interference for static disorder can lead to Anderson localization which completely hinders the quantum walk and it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yue Yin , D. E. Katsanos , S. N. Evangelou

We consider one-dimensional activated random walk (ARW) on $\mathbb{Z}$ started from a `point source' initial condition, with many particles at the origin and no other particles. We prove that, uniformly throughout a macroscopic window…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Christopher Hoffman , Jacob Richey , Hyojeong Son

In this dissertation we demonstrate that the continuous-time quantum walk models remain powerful for nontrivial graph structures. We consider two aspects of this problem. First, it is known that the standard Continuous-Time Quantum Walk…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-28 Adam Glos

We characterize quantumness of the so-called quantum walks (whose dynamics is governed by quantum mechanics) by introducing two computable measures which are stronger than the variance of the walker's position probability distribution. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-09 F. Shahbeigi , S. J. Akhtarshenas , A. T. Rezakhani