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We formulate a new model for transport in stochastic media with long-range spatial correlations where exponential attenuation (controlling the propagation part of the transport) becomes power law. Direct transmission over optical distance…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-13 Anthony B. Davis , Feng Xu

The connection between coined and continuous-time quantum walk models has been addressed in a number of papers. In most of those studies, the continuous-time model is derived from coined quantum walks by employing dimensional reduction and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-14 Pascal Philipp , Renato Portugal

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 propose random walks on suitably defined graphs as a framework for finescale modeling of particle motion in an obstructed environment where the particle may have interactions with the obstructions and the mean path length of the particle…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Preston Donovan , Muruhan Rathinam

We consider network models of quantum localisation in which a particle with a two-component wave function propagates through the nodes and along the edges of an arbitrary directed graph, subject to a random SU(2) rotation on each edge it…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 John Cardy

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

We consider quantum walks defined on arbitrary infinite graphs, parameterized by a family of scattering matrices attached to the vertices. Multiplying each scattering matrix by an i.i.d. random phase, we obtain a random scattering quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Alain Joye , Andreas Schaefer , Simone Warzel

Quantum walks function as essential means to implement quantum simulators, allowing one to study complex and often directly inaccessible quantum processes in controllable systems. In this contribution, the notion of a driven Gaussian…

Continuous-time quantum walk describes the propagation of a quantum particle (or an excitation) evolving continuously in time on a graph. As such, it provides a natural framework for modeling transport processes, e.g., in light-harvesting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-02 Luca Razzoli , Matteo G. A. Paris , Paolo Bordone

We argue that existing training-free segmentation methods rely on an implicit and limiting assumption, that segmentation is a spectral graph partitioning problem over diffusion-derived affinities. Such approaches, based on global graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Kunal Mahatha , Jose Dolz , Christian Desrosiers

In recent years, new neural network architectures designed to operate on graph-structured data have pushed the state-of-the-art in the field. A large set of these architectures utilize a form of classical random walks to diffuse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-18 Stefan Dernbach , Arman Mohseni-Kabir , Siddharth Pal , Don Towsley , Miles Gepner

We address continuous-time quantum walks on graphs in the presence of time- and space-dependent noise. Noise is modeled as generalized dynamical percolation, i.e. classical time-dependent fluctuations affecting the tunneling amplitudes of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-10 Claudia Benedetti , Matteo A. C. Rossi , Matteo G. A. Paris

Quantum random walks are shown to have non-intuitive dynamics which makes them an attractive area of study for devising quantum algorithms for long-standing open problems as well as those arising in the field of quantum computing. In the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Manouchehri , J. B. Wang

The theory of random walks on finite graphs is well developed with numerous applications. In quantum walks, the propagation is governed by quantum mechanical rules; generalizing random walks to the quantum setting. They have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-10 Avah Banerjee

We introduce a discrete-time quantum random walk (QRW) framework for spatial epidemic modelling on a two-dimensional square lattice and compare its dynamics to classical random-walk SIR models. In our model, each infected site spawns a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Sayan Manna , Nikhil Kowshik , Sudebkumar Prasant Pal

A fundamental problem in Quantum Information Processing is the discrimination amongst a set of quantum states of a system. In this paper, we address this problem on an open quantum system described by a graph, whose evolution is defined by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Nicola Dalla Pozza , Filippo Caruso

A discrete-time quantum walk is the quantum analogue of a Markov chain on a graph. Zhan [J. Algebraic Combin. 53(4):1187-1213, 2020] proposes a model of discrete-time quantum walk whose transition matrix is given by two reflections, using…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-24 Krystal Guo , Vincent Schmeits

We obtained analytical expressions considering a directed continuous-time quantum walk on a directed infinite line using Bessel functions, expanding previous results in the literature, for a general initial condition. We derive the equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-01 Rodrigo Chaves , Jaime Santos , Bruno Chagas

Mathematically modelling diffusive and advective transport of particles in heterogeneous layered media is important to many applications in computational, biological and medical physics. While deterministic continuum models of such…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Elliot J. Carr

We introduce the concept of group state transfer on graphs, summarize its relationship to other concepts in the theory of quantum walks, set up a basic theory, and discuss examples. Let $X$ be a graph with adjacency matrix $A$ and consider…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Luke C. Brown , William J. Martin , Duncan Wright