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Quantum walks, both discrete and continuous, serve as fundamental tools in quantum information processing with diverse applications. This work introduces a hybrid quantum walk model that integrates the coin mechanism of discrete walks with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Tianen Chen , Yun Shang

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.…

Quantum walks, both discrete (coined) and continuous time, on a general graph of N vertices with undirected edges are reviewed in some detail. The resource requirements for implementing a quantum walk as a program on a quantum computer are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Viv Kendon

Superconducting quantum circuit is a promising system for building quantum computer. With this system we demonstrate the universal quantum computations, including the preparing of initial states, the single-qubit operations, the two-qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-06 Nian-Quan Jiang , Yao Chen , Chuanbing Cai , Ming-FengWang , Junwang Tang

A quantum computer promises efficient processing of certain computational tasks that are intractable with classical computer technology. While basic principles of a quantum computer have been demonstrated in the laboratory, scalability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Raussendorf , Hans J. Briegel

The subject of this paper is a kind of dynamical systems called quantum walks. We study one-dimensional homogeneous analytic quantum walks U. We explain how to identify the space of all the uniform intertwining operators between these…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-08 Hiroki Sako

A random walk is known as a random process which describes a path including a succession of random steps in the mathematical space. It has increasingly been popular in various disciplines such as mathematics and computer science.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Feng Xia , Jiaying Liu , Hansong Nie , Yonghao Fu , Liangtian Wan , Xiangjie Kong

A quantum computer is a hypothetical device in which the laws of quantum mechanics are used to introduce a degree of parallelism into computations and which could therefore significantly improve on the computational speed of a classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Blythe , B. Varcoe

We set the ground for a theory of quantum walks on graphs- the generalization of random walks on finite graphs to the quantum world. Such quantum walks do not converge to any stationary distribution, as they are unitary and reversible.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Dorit Aharonov , Andris Ambainis , Julia Kempe , Umesh Vazirani

Quantum walk is a synonym for multi-path interference and faster spread of a particle in a superposition of position space. We study the effects of a quantum mechanical interaction modeled to mimic quantum mechanical gravitational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-18 Himanshu Badhani , C. M. Chandrashekar

Quantum walks provide a framework for understanding and designing quantum algorithms that is both intuitive and universal. To leverage the computational power of these walks, it is important to be able to programmably modify the graph a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Aaron W. Young , William J. Eckner , Nathan Schine , Andrew M. Childs , Adam M. Kaufman

Discrete time quantum walks are known to be universal for quantum computation. This has been proven by showing that they can simulate a universal gate set. In this paper we examine computation in terms of language acceptance and present two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-25 Katie Barr , Viv Kendon

Quantum simulation is a promising near term application for mesoscale quantum information processors, with the potential to solve computationally intractable problems at the scale of just a few dozen interacting quantum systems. Recent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-14 David L. Hayes , Steven T. Flammia , Michael J. Biercuk

Quantum walks and random walks bear similarities and divergences. One of the most remarkable disparities affects the probability of finding the particle at a given location: typically, almost a flat function in the first case and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-21 Miquel Montero

We analyze a continuous-time quantum walk on a chimera graph, which is a graph of choice for designing quantum annealers, and we discover beautiful quantum-walk features such as localization that starkly distinguishes classical from quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 Shu Xu , Xiangxiang Sun , Jizhou Wu , Wei-Wei Zhang , Nigum Arshed , Barry C. Sanders

Quantum walks have emerged as an interesting approach to quantum information processing, exhibiting many unique properties compared to the analogous classical random walk. Here we introduce a model for a discrete-time quantum walk with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-08 Peter P. Rohde , Gavin K. Brennen , Alexei Gilchrist

A scheme of universal quantum computation on a chain of qubits is described that does not require local control. All the required operations, an Ising-type interaction and spatially uniform simultaneous one-qubit gates, are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Robert Raussendorf

Simulation and programming of current quantum computers as Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices represent a hot topic at the border of current physical and information sciences. The quantum walk process represents a basic…

Quantum walks in general graphs, or more specifically scattering on graphs, encompass enough complexity to perform universal quantum computation. Any given quantum circuit can be broken down into single- and two-qubit gates, which can then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Luna Lima Keller , Daniel Jost Brod

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