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We prove general sufficient conditions for zero velocity in position dependent one-dimensional quantum walks, and hence for the absence of ballistic transport. Our starting point is a general a priori upper bound on the velocity, formulated…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Houssam Abdul-Rahman , Thomas A. Jackson , Yousef Salah

There are presently two models for quantum walks on graphs. The "coined" walk uses discrete time steps, and contains, besides the particle making the walk, a second quantum system, the coin, that determines the direction in which the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mark Hillery , Janos Bergou , Edgar Feldman

In this paper, we study the properties of lackadaisical quantum walks on a line. This model is first proposed in~\cite{wong2015grover} as a quantum analogue of lazy random walks where each vertex is attached $\tau$ self-loops. We derive an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-10 Kun Wang , Nan Wu , Ping Xu , Fangmin Song

This letter treats the quantum random walk on the line determined by a 2 times 2 unitary matrix U. A combinatorial expression for the mth moment of the quantum random walk is presented by using 4 matrices, P, Q, R and S given by U. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Norio Konno

Quantum walks are known to have nontrivial interaction with absorbing boundaries. In particular, Ambainis et.\ al.\ \cite{ambainis01} showed that in the $(\Z ,C_1,H)$ quantum walk (one-dimensional Hadamard walk) an absorbing boundary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-13 Parker Kuklinski , Mark Kon

We study a class of symmetric quantum walks on Hamming graphs, where the distance between vertices specifies the transition probability. A special model is the simple quantum walk on the hypercube, which has been discussed in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Robert Griffiths , Shuhei Mano

A discrete-time Quantum Walk (QW) is essentially an operator driving the evolution of a single particle on the lattice, through local unitaries. Some QWs admit a continuum limit, leading to well-known physics partial differential equations,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-20 Pablo Arrighi , Giuseppe Di Molfetta , Iván Márquez-Martín , Armando Pérez

We show analytically that particle trapping appears in a quantum process called "quantum walk", in which the particle moves macroscopically correlating to the inner states. It has been well known that a particle in the ``Hadamard walk" with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Norio Inui , Norio Konno

Quantum walks, both discrete (coined) and continuous time, form the basis of several quantum algorithms and have been used to model processes such as transport in spin chains and quantum chemistry. The enhanced spreading and mixing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-10 Godfrey Leung , Paul Knott , Joe Bailey , Viv Kendon

Quantum walks have been shown to have impressive transport properties compared to classical random walks. However, imperfections in the quantum walk algorithm can destroy any quantum mechanical speed-up due to Anderson localization. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Steven R. Jackson , Teng Jian Khoo , Frederick W. Strauch

The quantum and classical behaviors of two-dimensional (2D) alternative quantum walk (AQW) in the presence of decoherence have been discussed in detail. For any kinds of decoherence, the analytic expressions for the moments of position…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Tian Chen , Xiangdong Zhang

We show that a quantum state transfer, previously studied as a continuous time process in networks of interacting spins, can be achieved within the model of discrete time quantum walks with position dependent coin. We argue that due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 Pawel Kurzynski , Antoni Wojcik

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…

We address the performance of a coin-biased quantum walk as a generator for non-classical position states of the walker. We exploit a phenomenon of coherent localisation in the position space --- resulting from the choice of small values of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 H. Majury , J. Boutari , E. O'Sullivan , A. Ferraro , M. Paternostro

The topological phases in one-dimensional quantum walk can be classified by the coin parameters. By solving for the general exact solutions of bound states in one-dimensional quantum walk with boundaries specified by different coin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Ho Tat Lam , Yue Yu , Kwok Yip Szeto

In this paper we present closed-form expressions for the wave function that governs the evolution of the discrete-time quantum walk on a line when the coin operator is arbitrary. The formulas were derived assuming that the walker can either…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-18 Miquel Montero

We prove that a quantum walk can detect the presence of a marked element in a graph in $O(\sqrt{WR})$ steps for any initial probability distribution on vertices. Here, $W$ is the total weight of the graph, and $R$ is the effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-14 Aleksandrs Belovs

Quantum walk serves as a versatile tool for universal quantum computing and algorithmic research. However, the implementation of discrete-time quantum walks (DTQWs) with superconducting circuits is still constrained by some limitations such…

We look at two possible routes to classical behavior for the discrete quantum random walk on the line: decoherence in the quantum ``coin'' which drives the walk, or the use of higher-dimensional coins to dilute the effects of interference.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Todd A. Brun , Hilary A. Carteret , Andris Ambainis

The notion of trajectory of an individual particle is strictly inhibited in quantum mechanics because of the uncertainty principle. Nonetheless, the weak value, which has been proposed as a novel and measurable quantity definable to any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-01 Takuya Mori , Izumi Tsutsui