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Continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs) play a crucial role in quantum computing, especially for designing quantum algorithms. However, how to efficiently implement CTQWs is a challenging issue. In this paper, we study implementation of CTQWs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Zhaoyang Chen , Guanzhong Li , Lvzhou 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

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

A proof that continuous time quantum walks are universal for quantum computation, using unweighted graphs of low degree, has recently been presented by Childs [PRL 102 180501 (2009)]. We present a version based instead on the discrete time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-06 Neil B. Lovett , Sally Cooper , Matthew Everitt , Matthew Trevers , Viv Kendon

We construct a new type of quantum walks on simplicial complexes as a natural extension of the well-known Szegedy walk on graphs. One can numerically observe that our proposing quantum walks possess linear spreading and localization as in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-08-05 Kaname Matsue , Osamu Ogurisu , Etsuo Segawa

The "quantum walk" has emerged recently as a paradigmatic process for the dynamic simulation of complex quantum systems, entanglement production and quantum computation. Hitherto, photonic implementations of quantum walks have mainly been…

A quantum master equation of the Lindblad form is obtained in this paper by considering the spontaneous wave-packet reduction. Different classical equations can be derived after exactly mapping such a quantum master equation to a continuous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. F. Huang

We address decoherence and classicalization of continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs) on graphs. In particular, we investigate three different models of decoherence, and employ the quantum-classical (QC) dynamical distance as a figure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-11 Gabriele Bressanini , Claudia Benedetti , Matteo G. A. Paris

The quantum walk (QW) was introduced as a quantum counterpart of the classical random walk. A number of non-classical properties of the QW have been shown, e.g., ballistic spreading, anti-bellshaped limit density, localization. Since around…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Norio Konno

Quantum walks (QWs) represent pillars of quantum dynamics and information processing. They provide a powerful framework for simulating quantum transport, designing search algorithms, and enabling universal quantum computation. Several…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 E. Stefanutti , J. Philipps , J. Buetow , A. Guidara , M. Nuvoli , A. Chiuri , L. Sansoni

Link prediction is one of the fundamental problems in graph theory, critical for understanding and forecasting the evolution of complex systems like social and biological networks. While classical heuristics capture certain aspects of graph…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Priyank Dubey

Quantum walks have been employed widely to develop new tools for quantum information processing recently. A natural quantum walk dynamics of interacting particles can be used to implement efficiently the universal quantum computation. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-04 Alexey A. Melnikov , Leonid E. Fedichkin

We introduce quantum walks with a time-dependent coin, and show how they include, as a particular case, the generalized quantum walk recently studied by Wojcik et al. {[}Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{93}, 180601(2004){]} which exhibits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. C. Banuls , C. Navarrete , A. Perez , Eugenio Roldan , J. C. Soriano

Quantum walks constitute a rich area of quantum information science, where multipartite entanglement plays a central role in the dynamics and scalability of quantum advantage over classical simulators. In this work, we study the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Emil K. F. Donkersloot , René Sondenheimer , Jan Sperling

This paper presents a simple model that mimics quantum mechanics (QM) results in terms of probability fields of free particles subject to self-interference, without using Schr\"{o}dinger equation or wavefunctions. Unlike the standard QM…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 Antonio Sciarretta

Quantum walks are the quantum-mechanical analog of random walks, in which a quantum `walker' evolves between initial and final states by traversing the edges of a graph, either in discrete steps from node to node or via continuous evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Michael S. Underwood , David L. Feder

We propose a novel heuristic quantum algorithm for the Minimum Vertex Cover (MVC) problem based on continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs). In this framework, the coherent propagation of a quantum walker over a graph encodes its structural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 F. S. Luiz , A. K. F. Iwakami , D. H. Moraes , M. C. de Oliveira

Rules for quantizing the walker+coin parts of a classical random walk are provided by treating them as interacting quantum systems. A quantum optical random walk (QORW), is introduced by means of a new rule that treats quantum or classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Demosthenes Ellinas , Ioannis Smyrnakis

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

We introduce an object called a \emph{subspace graph} that formalizes the technique of multidimensional quantum walks. Composing subspace graphs allows one to seamlessly combine quantum and classical reasoning, keeping a classical structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-09 Stacey Jeffery , Galina Pass