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Quantum walks are powerful tools not only to construct the quantum speedup algorithms but also to describe specific models in physical processes. Furthermore, the discrete time quantum walk has been experimentally realized in various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-29 Yutaka Shikano , Kota Chisaki , Etsuo Segawa , Norio Konno

We give new observations on the mixing dynamics of a continuous-time quantum walk on circulants and their bunkbed extensions. These bunkbeds are defined through two standard graph operators: the join G + H and the Cartesian product of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 P. Lo , S. Rajaram , D. Schepens , D. Sullivan , C. Tamon , J. Ward

Quantum walks exhibit many unique characteristics compared to classical random walks. In the classical setting, self-avoiding random walks have been studied as a variation on the usual classical random walk. Classical self-avoiding random…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Elizabeth Camilleri , Peter P. Rohde , Jason Twamley

We analyze the equivalence between discrete-time coined quantum walks and Szegedy's quantum walks. We characterize a class of flip-flop coined models with generalized Grover coin on a graph $\Gamma$ that can be directly converted into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-03 Renato Portugal , Etsuo Segawa

Multi-dimensional quantum walks can exhibit highly non-trivial topological structure, providing a powerful tool for simulating quantum information and transport systems. We present a flexible implementation of a 2D optical quantum walk on a…

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

Topological data analysis is a rapidly developing area of data science where one tries to discover topological patterns in data sets to generate insight and knowledge discovery. In this project we use quantum walk algorithms to discover…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Yuan Feng , Raffaele Miceli , Michael McGuigan

Quantum walks in an elaborately designed graph, is a powerful tool simulating physical and topological phenomena, constructing analog quantum algorithms and realizing universal quantum computing. Integrated photonics technology has emerged…

Quantum walks on graphs can model physical processes and serve as efficient tools in quantum information theory. Once we admit random variations in the connectivity of the underlying graph, we arrive at the problem of percolation, where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-12 Bálint Kollár , Jaroslav Novotný , Tamás Kiss , Igor Jex

A quantum walk places a traverser into a superposition of both graph location and traversal "spin." The walk is defined by an initial condition, an evolution determined by a unitary coin/shift-operator, and a measurement based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 Marko A. Rodriguez , Jennifer H. Watkins

Continuous time quantum walks (CTQW) do not necessarily perform better than their classical counterparts, the continuous time random walks (CTRW). For one special graph, where a recent analysis showed that in a particular direction of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Oliver Muelken , Alexander Blumen

Continuous time quantum walks on exponentially large, sparse graphs form a powerful paradigm for quantum computing: On the one hand, they can be efficiently simulated on a quantum computer. On the other hand, they are themselves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Lilith Zschetzsche , Refik Mansuroglu , András Molnár , Norbert Schuch

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

Quantum walks constitute important tools in different applications, especially in quantum algorithms. To a great extent their usefulness is due to unusual diffusive features, allowing much faster spreading than their classical counterparts.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-09 F. M. Andrade , M. G. E. da Luz

We present a comprehensive classification of one-dimensional coined quantum walks on the infinite line, focusing on the spatial probability distributions they induce. Building on prior results, we identify all initial coin states that lead…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Lukas Hantzko , Lennart Binkowski

This work deals with both instantaneous uniform mixing property and temporal standard deviation for continuous-time quantum random walks on circles in order to study their fluctuations comparing with discrete-time quantum random walks, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Norio Inui , Koichiro Kasahara , Yoshinao Konishi , Norio Konno

Classical random walk formalism shows a significant role across a wide range of applications. As its quantum counterpart, the quantum walk is proposed as an important theoretical model for quantum computing. By exploiting the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Xiaogang Qiang , Shixin Ma , Haijing Song

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

Many complex systems exhibit interactions that depend not only on pairwise connections, but also group structures and memory effects. To capture such effects, we develop a unified tensor framework for modeling higher-order Markov chains…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Shaoxuan Cui , Lingfei Wang , Hildeberto Jardon-Kojakhmetov , Karl Henrik Johansson , Ming Cao

Continuous-time quantum walks on graphs is a generalization of continuous-time Markov chains on discrete structures. Moore and Russell proved that the continuous-time quantum walk on the $n$-cube is instantaneous exactly uniform mixing but…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 William Adamczak , Kevin Andrew , Peter Hernberg , Christino Tamon