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We consider the discrete time unitary dynamics given by a quantum walk on $\Z^d$ performed by a particle with internal degree of freedom, called coin state, according to the following iterated rule: a unitary update of the coin state takes…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Eman Hamza , Alain Joye

The staggered quantum walk is a type of discrete-time quantum walk model without a coin which can be generated on a graph using particular partitions of the graph nodes. We design Hamiltonians for potential realization of the staggered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Jalil Khatibi Moqadam , Ali T. Rezakhani

This paper presents a simple model that mimics quantum mechanics (QM) results in terms of probability fields of free particles subject to self-interference, without using Schr\"{o}dinger equation or wavefunctions. Unlike the standard QM…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 Antonio Sciarretta

This work focuses on the study of quantum stochastic walks, which are a generalization of coherent, i. e. unitary quantum walks. Our main goal is to present a measure of a coherence of the walk. To this end, we utilize the asymptotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 Krzysztof Domino , Adam Glos , Mateusz Ostaszewski , Łukasz Pawela , Przemysław Sadowski

One-dimensional discrete-time quantum walk has played an important role in development of quantum algorithms and protocols for different quantum simulations. The speedup observed in quantum walk algorithms is attributed to quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-14 Shivani Singh , C. M. Chandrashekar

The analysis of logarithmic return distributions defined over large time scales is crucial for understanding the long-term dynamics of asset price movements. For large time scales of the order of two trading years, the anticipated Gaussian…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-04-16 Stijn De Backer , Luis E. C. Rocha , Jan Ryckebusch , Koen Schoors

We show that the occurrence of chaotic diffusion in a typical class of time-delayed systems with linear instantaneous and nonlinear delayed term can be well described by an anti-persistent random walk. We numerically investigate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-13 Tony Albers , David Müller-Bender , Günter Radons

We prove analytical results showing that decoherence can be useful for mixing time in a continuous-time quantum walk on finite cycles. This complements the numerical observations by Kendon and Tregenna (Physical Review A 67 (2003), 042315)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Leonid Fedichkin , Dmitry Solenov , Christino Tamon

We consider the discrete time unitary dynamics given by a quantum walk on the lattice $\Z^d$ performed by a quantum particle with internal degree of freedom, called coin state, according to the following iterated rule: a unitary update of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Alain Joye

The random walk of photons in a tight-binding lattice is known to exhibit diffusive motion similar to classical random walks under decoherence, clearly illustrating the quantum-to-classical transition. In this study, we reveal that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Stefano Longhi

Although quantum walks exhibit peculiar properties that distinguish them from random walks, classical behavior can be recovered in the asymptotic limit by destroying the coherence of the pure state associated to the quantum system. Here I…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-16 Miquel Montero

Properties of one dimensional discrete-time quantum walks are sensitive to the presence of inhomogeneities in the substrate, which can be generated by defining position dependent coin operators. Deterministic aperiodic sequences of two or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-08 R. F. S. Andrade , A. M. C. Souza

We put forward a new, versatile and highly-scalable experimental setup for the realization of discrete two-dimensional quantum random walks with a single-qubit coin and tunable degree of decoherence. The proposed scheme makes use of a small…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-29 Jiří Svozilík , Roberto de Jesús León-Montiel , Juan P. Torres

The effect of unitary noise on the discrete one-dimensional quantum walk is studied using computer simulations. For the noiseless quantum walk, starting at the origin (n=0) at time t=0, the position distribution Pt(n) at time t is very…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniel Shapira , Ofer Biham , A. J. Bracken , Michelle Hackett

We set the criteria under which superposition of causal order can be incorporated in to quantum walks. In particular, we show that only periodic quantum walks or those with at least one disorder exhibit Superposition of causal order under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Prateek Chawla , Shrikant Utagi , C. M. Chandrashekar

We study the differences between the process of decoherence induced by chaotic and regular environments. For this we analyze a family of simple models wich contain both regular and chaotic environments. In all cases the system of interest…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Leonardo Ermann , Juan Pablo Paz , Marcos Saraceno

We address the dynamics of continuous-time quantum walks on one-dimensional disordered lattices inducing dynamical noise in the system. Noise is described as time-dependent fluctuations of the tunneling amplitudes between adjacent sites,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-21 Claudia Benedetti , Fabrizio Buscemi , Paolo Bordone , Matteo G. A. Paris

A discrete time quantum walk is considered in which the step lengths are chosen to be either $1$ or $2$ with the additional feature that the walker is persistent with a probability $p$. This implies that with probability $p$, the walker…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 Suchetana Mukhopadhyay , Parongama Sen

We derive the continuous spacetime limit of the one dimensional lazy discrete time quantum walk, obtaining explicit macroscopic evolution equations for a three state model in the presence of decoherence. While continuum limits of two state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Lara Janiurek , Viv Kendon

In this note we demonstrate that a quantum-like interference picture could appear as a statistical effect of interference of deterministic particles, i.e. particles that have trajectories and obey deterministic equations, if one introduces…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrei Khrennikov , Yaroslav Volovich