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A discrete-time quantum walk (QW) is essentially a unitary operator driving the evolution of a single particle on the lattice. Some QWs have familiar physics PDEs as their continuum limit. Some slight generalization of them (allowing for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Pablo Arrighi , Giuseppe Di Molfetta , Stefano Facchini

A quantum walk, \emph{i.e.}, the quantum evolution of a particle on a graph, is termed \emph{scalar} if the internal space of the moving particle (often called the coin) has a dimension one. Here, we study the existence of scalar quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-11-27 Olga Lopez Acevedo , Jérémie Roland , Nicolas J. Cerf

We show that the Dirac quantum cellular automaton [Ann. Phys. 354 (2015) 244] shares many properties in common with the discrete-time quantum walk. These similarities can be exploited to study the automaton as a unitary process that takes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-26 A. Pérez

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

Quantum random walks are shown to have non-intuitive dynamics which makes them an attractive area of study for devising quantum algorithms for long-standing open problems as well as those arising in the field of quantum computing. In the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Manouchehri , J. B. Wang

We utilize the theory of local amplitude transfers (LAT) to gain insights into quantum walks (QWs) and quantum annealing (QA) beyond the adiabatic theorem. By representing the eigenspace of the problem Hamiltonian as a hypercube graph, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 Sebastian Schulz , Dennis Willsch , Kristel Michielsen

We introduce a hybrid classical-quantum algorithm for simulating a Hamiltonian of the form $H= \sum_{i=1}^K H_i = \sum_{i=1}^K H_{i_1} \otimes H_{i_2} \otimes \cdots \otimes H_{i_M}$. Given that the entries of all $\{ H_{i_1}, H_{i_2} ,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Nhat A. Nghiem , Tzu-Chieh Wei

The quantum walk is a powerful tool to develop quantum algorithms, which usually are based on searching for a vertex in a graph with multiple marked vertices, Ambainis's quantum algorithm for solving the element distinctness problem being…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 G. A. Bezerra , P. H. G. Lugão , R. Portugal

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

We provide a general method for efficiently simulating time-dependent Hamiltonian dynamics on a circuit-model based quantum computer. Our approach is based on approximating the truncated Dyson series of the evolution operator, extending the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Maria Kieferova , Artur Scherer , Dominic Berry

Mixing properties of discrete-time quantum walks on two-dimensional grids with torus-like boundary conditions are analyzed, focusing on their connection to the complexity of the corresponding abstract search algorithm. In particular, an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-18 F. L. Marquezino , R. Portugal , G. Abal

We investigate the use of discrete-time quantum walks to sample from an almost-uniform distribution, in the absence of any external source of randomness. Integers are encoded on the vertices of a cycle graph, and a quantum walker evolves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 Marco Radaelli , Claudia Benedetti , Stefano Olivares

Quantum walks, the quantum mechanical counterpart of classical random walks, is an advanced tool for building quantum algorithms that has been recently shown to constitute a universal model of quantum computation. Quantum walks is now a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-01 Salvador E. Venegas-Andraca

We study continuous time quantum walk on a random comb graph with infinite teeth. Due to localization effects along the spine, the walk cannot go to infinity in the spine direction, while it can escape to infinity along the teeth of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 François David , Thordur Jonsson

We develop a Lie algebraic approach to systematically calculate the evolution operator of the generalized two-dimensional quadratic Hamiltonian with time-dependent coefficients. Although the development of the Lie algebraic approach…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-21 V. G. Ibarra-Sierra , J. C. Sandoval-Santana , J. L. Cardoso , A. Kunold

It is shown that discrete-time quantum walks can be used to digitize, i.e., to time discretize fermionic models of continuous-time lattice gauge theory. The resulting discrete-time dynamics is thus not only manifestly unitary, but also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Pablo Arnault , Armando Pérez , Pablo Arrighi , Terry Farrelly

The quantum-walk-based spatial search problem aims to find a marked vertex using a quantum walk on a graph with marked vertices. We describe a framework for determining the computational complexity of spatial search by continuous-time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-25 Pedro H. G. Lugão , Renato Portugal , Mohamed Sabri , Hajime Tanaka

We propose a natural, parameter-free, discrete-variable formulation of Feynman path integrals. We show that for discrete-variable quantum systems, Feynman path integrals take the form of walks on the graph whose weighted adjacency matrix is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Amir Kalev , Itay Hen

In this paper, we study discrete-time quantum walks on one-dimensional lattices. We find that the coherent dynamics depends on the initial states and coin parameters. For infinite size of lattice, we derive an explicit expression for the…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2015-05-18 Xin-Ping Xu

Delocalization transition is numerically found in a non-Hermitian extension of a discrete-time quantum walk on a one-dimensional random medium. At the transition, an eigenvector gets delocalized and at the same time the corresponding energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-23 Naomichi Hatano , Hideaki Obuse