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Parrondo paradox describes the counterintuitive phenomenon in which alternating two individually losing games yields a winning outcome. Extending this effect to the quantum regime has typically required high dimensional coin spaces,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Jen-Yu Chang , Yun-Hsuan Chen , Gooi Zi Liang , Chih-Yu Chen , Tsung-Wei Huang

We consider a deterministic realization of Parrondo games and use periodic orbit theory to analyze their asymptotic behavior.

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roberto Artuso , Lucia Cavallasca , Giampaolo Cristadoro

Many social and biological networks periodically change over time with daily, weekly, and other cycles. Thus motivated, we formulate and analyze susceptible-infectious-susceptible (SIS) epidemic models over temporal networks with periodic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-11-22 Maisha Islam Sejunti , Dane Taylor , Naoki Masuda

Parrondo's paradox occurs in sequences of games in which a winning expectation value of a payoff may be obtained by playing two games in a random order, even though each game in the sequence may be lost when played individually.Several…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-11-11 Norihito Toyota

Consider a simple random walk on the integers with the following transition mechanism. At each site $x$, the probability of jumping to the right is $\omega(x)\in[\frac12,1)$, until the first time the process jumps to the left from site $x$,…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Ross Pinsky

Parrondo's Paradox arises when two losing games are combined to produce a winning one. A history dependent quantum Parrondo game is studied where the rotation operators that represent the toss of a classical biased coin are replaced by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Adrian P. Flitney , Joseph Ng , Derek Abbott

We consider a random walk in random environment in the low disorder regime on $\mathbb Z^d$. That is, the probability that the random walk jumps from a site $x$ to a nearest neighboring site $x+e$ is given by $p(e)+\epsilon \xi(x,e)$, where…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-11-11 David Campos , Alejandro F. Ramirez

We consider random walks in dynamic random environments given by Markovian dynamics on $\mathbb{Z}^d$. We assume that the environment has a stationary distribution $\mu$ and satisfies the Poincar\'e inequality w.r.t. $\mu$. The random walk…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-01 L. Avena , O. Blondel , A. Faggionato

We define a random walk of a particle in $\mathbb{R}^3$ where the space is rotating. The particle is not glued to the space and will collide with it at random times, resulting in changes in its velocity and direction. After many collisions,…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Alberto M. Campos , Tarcísio P. R. Campos

An analytical result and an algorithm are derived for the probability distribution of the one-dimensional cooperative Parrondo's games. We show that winning and the occurrence of the paradox depends on the number of players. Analytical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zoran Mihailovic , Milan Rajkovic

Starting with a percolation model in $\Z^d$ in the subcritical regime, we consider a random walk described as follows: the probability of transition from $x$ to $y$ is proportional to some function $f$ of the size of the cluster of $y$.…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-01-31 Serguei Popov , Marina Vachkovskaia

We present a modification of the so-called Parrondo's paradox where one is allowed to choose in each turn the game that a large number of individuals play. It turns out that, by choosing the game which gives the highest average earnings at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-03 Luis Dinis , Juan M. R. Parrondo

We consider a ballistic random walk in an i.i.d. random environment that does not allow retreating in a certain fixed direction. Homogenization and regeneration techniques combine to prove a law of large numbers and an averaged invariance…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-06-13 F. Rassoul-Agha , T. Seppalainen

Parrondo's paradox, where the alternation of two losing strategies can produce a winning outcome, has recently been demonstrated in continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs) through periodic defect modulation. We extend this phenomenon to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 José J. Ximenes , Marcelo A. Pires , José M. Villas-Bôas

We study an ensemble of individuals playing the two games of the so-called Parrondo paradox. In our study, players are allowed to choose the game to be played by the whole ensemble in each turn. The choice cannot conform to the preferences…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-08-10 J. M. R. Parrondo , L. Dinis , E. García-Toraño , B. Sotillo

We investigate the possibility of implementing a sequence of quantum walks whose probability distributions give an overall positive winning probability, while it is negative for the single walks (Parrondo's paradox). In particular, we have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Georg Trautmann , Caspar Groiseau , Sandro Wimberger

Toral (2002) considered an ensemble of N\geq2 players. In game B a player is randomly selected to play Parrondo's original capital-dependent game. In game A' two players are randomly selected without replacement, and the first transfers one…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-03-19 S. N. Ethier , Jiyeon Lee

Recently Simenhaus proved that for any elliptic random walk in random environment, transience in the neighborhood of a given direction is equivalent to the a.s. existence of a deterministic asymptotic direction and to transience in any…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-02-09 Alexander Drewitz , Alejandro F. Ramírez

We study the behavior of the random walk in a continuum independent long-range percolation model, in which two given vertices $x$ and $y$ are connected with probability that asymptotically behaves like $|x-y|^{-\alpha}$ with $\alpha>d$,…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-30 Ercan Sönmez , Arnaud Rousselle

We derive a perturbation expansion for general self-interacting random walks, where steps are made on the basis of the history of the path. Examples of models where this expansion applies are reinforced random walk, excited random walk, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-01-13 Remco van der Hofstad , Mark Holmes