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The Maximum Matching problem has a quantum query complexity lower bound of $\Omega(n^{3/2})$ for graphs on $n$ vertices represented by an adjacency matrix. The current best quantum algorithm has the query complexity $O(n^{7/4})$, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Alcides Gomes Andrade Júnior , Akira Matsubayashi

We define the quaternionic quantum walk on a finite graph and investigate its properties. This walk can be considered as a natural quaternionic extension of the Grover walk on a graph. We explain the way to obtain all the right eigenvalues…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-21 Norio Konno , Hideo Mitsuhashi , Iwao Sato

We present a novel methodological framework for quantum spatial search, generalising the Childs & Goldstone ($\mathcal{CG}$) algorithm via alternating applications of marked-vertex phase shifts and continuous-time quantum walks. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-30 S. Marsh , J. B. Wang

Spatial search on graphs is one of the most important algorithmic applications of quantum walks. To show that a quantum-walk-based search is more efficient than a random-walk-based search is a difficult problem, which has been addressed in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Hajime Tanaka , Mohamed Sabri , Renato Portugal

Kronecker graphs, obtained by repeatedly performing the Kronecker product of the adjacency matrix of an "initiator" graph with itself, have risen in popularity in network science due to their ability to generate complex networks with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Thomas G. Wong , Konstantin Wünscher , Joshua Lockhart , Simone Severini

We give the first example of faster transport with a quantum walk on an inherently directed graph, on the directed line with a variable number of self-loops at each vertex. These self-loops can be thought of as adding a number of small…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-24 Stephan Hoyer , David A. Meyer

In the present paper, we study the continuous-time quantum walk on quotient graphs. On such graphs, there is a straightforward reduction of problem to a subspace that can be considerably smaller than the original one. Along the lines of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-23 S. Salimi

We present analytical treatment of quantum walks on a cycle graph. The investigation is based on a realistic physical model of the graph in which decoherence is induced by continuous monitoring of each graph vertex with nearby quantum point…

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

This paper examines the performance of spatial search where the Grover diffusion operator is replaced by continuous-time quantum walks on a class of interdependent networks. We prove that for a set of optimal quantum walk times and marked…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-26 S. Marsh , J. B. Wang

We study quantum walks on general graphs from the point of view of scattering theory. For a general finite graph we choose two vertices and attach one half line to each. We are interested in walks that proceed from one half line, through…

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

In this paper, we study Grover's search algorithm focusing on continuous-time quantum walk on graphs. We propose an alternative optimization approach to Grover's algorithm on graphs that can be summarized as follows: instead of finding…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-07-06 Gamal Mograby , Radhakrishnan Balu , Kasso A. Okoudjou , Alexander Teplyaev

Quantum walks are at the heart of modern quantum technologies. They allow to deal with quantum transport phenomena and are an advanced tool for constructing novel quantum algorithms. Quantum walks on graphs are fundamentally different from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Alexey A. Melnikov , Leonid E. Fedichkin , Alexander Alodjants

We make and generalize the observation that summing of probability amplitudes of a discrete-time quantum walk over partitions of the walking graph consistent with the step operator results in a unitary evolution on the reduced graph which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-06 Václav Potoček

We present a quantum algorithm for sampling random spanning trees from a weighted graph in $\widetilde{O}(\sqrt{mn})$ time, where $n$ and $m$ denote the number of vertices and edges, respectively. Our algorithm has sublinear runtime for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Simon Apers , Minbo Gao , Zhengfeng Ji , Chenghua Liu

The idea that the search efficiency can be increased with the help of a number of autonomous agents is often relevant in many situations, which is known among biologists and roboticists as a stigmergy. This is due to the fact that, in any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 Jin-Hui Zhu , Li-Hua Lu , You-Quan Li

Diverse facets Of the Theory of Quantum Walks on Graph are reviewed Till now .In specific, Quantum network routing, Quantum Walk Search Algorithm, Element distinctness associated to the eigenvalues of Graphs and the use of these relation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Tewabe Chekole

Random walks describe diffusion processes, where movement at every time step is restricted to only the neighbouring locations. We construct a quantum random walk algorithm, based on discretisation of the Dirac evolution operator inspired by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Apoorva Patel , Md. Aminoor Rahaman

We examine the effect of network heterogeneity on the performance of quantum search algorithms. To this end, we study quantum search on a tree for the oracle Hamiltonian formulation employed by continuous-time quantum walks. We use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-09 Pascal Philipp , Luís Tarrataca , Stefan Boettcher

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

Quantum walk followed by some amplitude amplification technique has been successfully used to search for marked vertices on various graphs. Lackadaisical quantum walk can search for target vertices on graphs without the help of any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 Pulak Ranjan Giri