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Open quantum walks (OQWs) describe a quantum walker on an underlying graph whose dynamics is purely driven by dissipation and decoherence. Mathematically, they are formulated as completely positive trace preserving (CPTP) maps on the space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Garreth Kemp , Ilya Sinayskiy , Francesco Petruccione

The concept of open quantum walks (OQW), quantum walks exclusively driven by the interaction with the external environment, is reviewed. OQWs are formulated as discrete completely positive maps on graphs. The basic properties of OQWs are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-11 I. Sinayskiy , F. Petruccione

Open quantum walks (OQWs) are a new type of quantum walks which are entirely driven by the dissipative interaction with external environments and are formulated as completely positive trace-preserving maps on graphs. A generalized quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-06 Ayanda Romanis Zungu , IIya Sinayskiy , Francesco Petruccione

Open Quantum Walks (OQW) are a type of quantum walk governed by the system's interaction with its environment. We explore the time evolution and the limit behavior of the OQW framework for Quantum Computation and show how we can represent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Pedro Linck Maciel , Nadja K. Bernardes

Open quantum walks (OQW) are formulated as quantum Markov chains on graphs. It is shown that OQWs are a very useful tool for the formulation of dissipative quantum computing algorithms and for dissipative quantum state preparation. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-15 S. Attal , F. Petruccione , I. Sinayskiy

Open quantum walks (OQWs) constitute a class of quantum walks whose dynamics are entirely driven by interactions with the environment. It is well known that OQWs provide a general framework for implementing dissipative quantum computation.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Pedro Linck Maciel , Graeme Pleasance , Francesco Petruccione , Nadja K. Bernardes

Open quantum systems interact with their environment, leading to nonunitary dynamics. We investigate the thermodynamics of linear Open Quantum Walks (OQWs), a class of quantum walks whose dynamics is entirely driven by the environment. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Pedro Linck Maciel , Nadja Kolb Bernardes

This manuscript gathers and subsumes a long series of works on using QW to simulate transport phenomena. Quantum Walks (QWs) consist of single and isolated quantum systems, evolving in discrete or continuous time steps according to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-23 Giuseppe Di Molfetta

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

Continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs) on static graphs provide efficient methods for search and sampling as well as a model for universal quantum computation. We consider an extension of CTQWs to the case of dynamic graphs, in which an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Rebekah Herrman , Travis Humble

A microscopic derivation of an open quantum walk on a two node graph is presented. It is shown that for the considered microscopic model of the system-bath interaction the resulting quantum master equation takes the form of a generalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 Ilya Sinayskiy , Francesco Petruccione

Open Quantum Brownian Motion (OQBM) was introduced as a scaling limit of discrete-time open quantum walks. This limit defines a new class of quantum Brownian motion, which incorporates both the external and internal degrees of freedom of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Ayanda Zungu , Ilya Sinayskiy , Francesco Petruccione

A discrete-time Quantum Walk (QW) is essentially a unitary operator driving the evolution of a single particle on the lattice. Some QWs admit a continuum limit, leading to familiar PDEs (e.g. the Dirac equation). In this paper, we study the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-29 Pablo Arrighi , Stefano Facchini , Marcelo Forets

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

The dynamics of a discrete-time quantum walk (DTQW) can be realized within a purely classical interacting particle system composed of some boxes and a large but finite number of balls, and can, in principle, be implemented in a tabletop…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Surajit Saha

Discrete-time quantum walks (DTQWs) in random artificial electric and gravitational fields are studied analytically and numerically. The analytical computations are carried by a new method which allows a direct exact analytical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-25 G. Di Molfetta , F. Debbasch

Quantum walks have been shown to have a wide range of applications, from artificial intelligence, to photosynthesis, and quantum transport. Quantum stochastic walks (QSWs) generalize this concept to additional non-unitary evolution. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Peter K. Schuhmacher , Luke C. G. Govia , Bruno G. Taketani , Frank K. Wilhelm

A discrete-time Quantum Walk (QW) is an operator driving the evolution of a single particle on the lattice, through local unitaries. Some QW admit, as their continuum limit, a well-known equation of Physics. In arXiv:1803.01015 the QW is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-07 Pablo Arrighi , Giuseppe Di Molfetta , Iván Márquez-Martín , Armando Pérez

History dependent discrete time quantum walks (QWs) are often studied for their lattice traversal properties. A particular model in the literature uses the state of a memory qubit at each site to record visits and to control the dynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Asif Shakeel

We introduce a fidelity-based measure $\text{D}_{\text{CQ}}(t)$ to quantify the differences between the dynamics of classical (CW) and quantum (QW) walks over a graph. We provide universal, graph-independent, analytic expressions of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Valentina Gualtieri , Claudia Benedetti , Matteo G. A. Paris
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