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Certain continuous-time quantum walks can be viewed as scattering processes. These processes can perform quantum computations, but it is challenging to design graphs with desired scattering behavior. In this paper, we study and construct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-02 Andrew M. Childs , David Gosset , Daniel Nagaj , Mouktik Raha , Zak Webb

The capability to generate and manipulate quantum states in high-dimensional Hilbert spaces is a crucial step for the development of quantum technologies, from quantum communication to quantum computation. One-dimensional quantum walk…

We present a review of photonic implementations of discrete-time quantum walks (DTQW) in the spatial and temporal domains, based on spatial- and time-multiplexing techniques, respectively. Additionally, we propose a detailed novel scheme…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Leonardo Neves , Graciana Puentes

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

Using a model quantum clock, I evaluate an expression for the time of a non-relativistic quantum particle to transit a piecewise geodesic path in a background gravitational field with small spacetime curvature (gravity gradient), in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 P C W Davies

We introduce a quantum algorithm for simulating the time-dependent Dirac equation in 3+1 dimensions using discrete-time quantum walks. Thus far, promising quantum algorithms have been proposed to simulate quantum dynamics in…

Quantum particles in a potential are described by classical statistical probabilities. We formulate a basic time evolution law for the probability distribution of classical position and momentum such that all known quantum phenomena follow,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-16 C. Wetterich

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

We discuss decoherence in discrete-time quantum walks in terms of a phenomenological model that distinguishes spin and spatial decoherence. We identify the dominating mechanisms that affect quantum walk experiments realized with neutral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 Andrea Alberti , Wolfgang Alt , Reinhard Werner , Dieter Meschede

We present a discrete form of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for quantum gravitation, based on the lattice formulation due to Regge. In this setup the infinite-dimensional manifold of 3-geometries is replaced by a space of three-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-07 Herbert W. Hamber , Ruth M. Williams

Interplay between quantum interference and classical randomness can enhance performance of various quantum information tasks. In the present paper we analyze recurrence phenomena in the discrete-time quantum stochastic walk on a line, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Martin Stefanak , Vaclav Potocek , Iskender Yalcinkaya , Aurel Gabris , Igor Jex

This study aims to address the nature of state change, measurement, and probabilistic outcomes in non-relativistic quantum mechanics. We consider a pair of particles that interact in a one-dimensional setting via a delta-function potential.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Olivia Pomerenk , Charles S. Peskin

Within the framework of the individuality interpretation of quantum theory (QT), the basic equations of QT cannot be derived from the basic equations of classical mechanics (CM). The unbridgeable gap between CM and QT is given by the fact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Ulf Klein

We address the scattering of a quantum particle by a one-dimensional barrier potential over a set of discrete positions. We formalize the problem as a continuous-time quantum walk on a lattice with an impurity, and use the quantum Fisher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Francesco Zatelli , Claudia Benedetti , Matteo G. A. Paris

Quantum simulation is known to be capable of simulating certain dynamical systems in continuous time -- Schrodinger's equations being the most direct and well-known -- more efficiently than classical simulation. Any linear dynamical system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Shi Jin , Nana Liu

Surprisingly the looking natural random walk leading to Brownian motion occurs to be often biased in a very subtle way: usually refers to only approximate fulfillment of thermodynamical principles like maximizing uncertainty. Recently, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Jarek Duda

We study a spin-1/2-particle moving on a one dimensional lattice subject to disorder induced by a random, space-dependent quantum coin. The discrete time evolution is given by a family of random unitary quantum walk operators, where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Andre Ahlbrecht , Volkher B. Scholz , Albert H. Werner

We formulate the lattice QCD simulation with background classical gravitational fields. This formulation enables us to study nonperturbative aspects of quantum phenomena in curved spacetimes from the first principles. As the first…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-10-08 Arata Yamamoto

Coin and scattering are the two major formulations for discrete quantum walks models, each believed to have its own advantages in different applications. Although they are related in some cases, it was an open question their equivalence in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-18 F. M. Andrade , M. G. E. da Luz

Discrete-time quantum walks, quantum generalizations of classical random walks, provide a framework for quantum information processing, quantum algorithms and quantum simulation of condensed matter systems. The key property of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Rostislav Duda , Moein N. Ivaki , Isac Sahlberg , Kim Pöyhönen , Teemu Ojanen