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This tutorial article showcases the many varieties and uses of quantum walks. Discrete time quantum walks are introduced as counterparts of classical random walks. The emphasis is on the connections and differences between the two types of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-16 Daniel Reitzner , Daniel Nagaj , Vladimir Buzek

Quantum discrete-time walkers have, since their introduction, demonstrated applications in algorithmic and in modeling and simulating a wide range of transport phenomena. They have long been considered the discrete-time and discrete space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Nicolas Jolly , Giuseppe Di Molfetta

Discrete quantum walks are periodically driven systems with discrete time evolution. In contrast to ordinary Floquet systems, no microscopic Hamiltonian exists, and the one-period time evolution is given directly by a series of unitary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Ken Mochizuki , Takumi Bessho , Masatoshi Sato , Hideaki Obuse

The mean squared displacement has been widely used as the primary metric for comparing quantum and classical random walks, with quantum walks showing quadratic scaling versus linear scaling for classical walks. However, this comparison may…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Jan Wójcik

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 familiar PDEs (e.g. the Dirac equation). Recently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Pablo Arrighi , Stefano Facchini

Random walks describe diffusion processes, where movement at every time step is restricted to only the neighbouring locations. We construct a quantum random walk algorithm, based on discretisation of the Dirac evolution operator inspired by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Apoorva Patel , Md. Aminoor Rahaman

We introduce a new type of discrete quantum walks, called vertex-face walks, based on orientable embeddings. We first establish a spectral correspondence between the transition matrix $U$ and the vertex-face incidence structure. Using the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Hanmeng Zhan

It was recently shown that continuous-time quantum walks on dynamic graphs, i.e., sequences of static graphs whose edges change at specific times, can implement a universal set of quantum gates. This result treated all isolated vertices as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Thomas G. Wong

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

Continuous-time quantum walks provide an alternative method for quantum search problems. Most of the earlier studies confirmed that quadratic speedup exists in some synthetic Hamiltonians, but whether there is quadratic speedup in real…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Fan Xing , Yan Wei , Zeyang Liao

This work focuses on the quantum mixing time, which is crucial for efficient quantum sampling and algorithm performance. We extend Richter's previous analysis of continuous time quantum walks on the periodic lattice $\mathbb{Z}_{n_1}\times…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 Shyam Dhamapurkar , Xiu-Hao Deng

Quantum walks, the quantum mechanical counterpart of classical random walks, is an advanced tool for building quantum algorithms that has been recently shown to constitute a universal model of quantum computation. Quantum walks is now a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-01 Salvador E. Venegas-Andraca

The quantum walk is the quantum analogue of the well-known random walk, which forms the basis for models and applications in many realms of science. Its properties are markedly different from the classical counterpart and might lead to…

A quantum computer, i.e. utilizing the resources of quantum physics, superposition of states and entanglement, could furnish an exponential gain in computing time. A simulation using such resources is called a quantum simulation. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 Pablo Arnault

Several research groups are giving special attention to quantum walks recently, because this research area have been used with success in the development of new efficient quantum algorithms. A general simulator of quantum walks is very…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-18 F. L. Marquezino , R. Portugal

We study numerically the behavior of continuous-time quantum walks over networks which are topologically equivalent to square lattices. On short time scales, when placing the initial excitation at a corner of the network, we observe a fast,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Oliver Muelken , Antonio Volta , Alexander Blumen

A review of discrete quantum walk with two particle is given. The use of different states encountered in identical particle, and the idea of entanglement and superposition is explored to explored the interesting dynamics of two particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-22 Joachim Nsofini

Rydberg atoms provide a highly promising platform for quantum computation, leveraging their strong tunable interactions to encode and manipulate information in the electronic states of individual atoms. Key advantages of Rydberg atoms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Gabriel Almeida , Raul Santos , Lara Janiurek , Yasser Omar

Research has shown that quantum walks can accelerate certain quantum algorithms and act as a universal paradigm for quantum processing. The discrete-time quantum walk (DTQW) model, owing to its discrete nature, stands out as one of the most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Biswayan Nandi , Sandipan Singha , Ankan Datta , Amit Saha , Amlan Chakrabarti

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