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Continuous-time quantum walks are typically effected by either the discrete Laplacian or the adjacency matrix. In this paper, we explore a third option: the signless Laplacian, which has applications in algebraic graph theory and may arise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-26 Molly E. McLaughlin , Thomas G. Wong

We study the quantum walk search algorithm of Shenvi, Kempe and Whaley [PRA 67 052307 (2003)] on data structures of one to two spatial dimensions, on which the algorithm is thought to be less efficient than in three or more spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-25 Neil B. Lovett , Matthew Everitt , Matthew Trevers , Daniel Mosby , Dan Stockton , Viv Kendon

We investigate the quantum transport of delocalized states in continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs) on a one-dimensional lattice containing a single defect. The defect is modeled by assigning complex-valued hopping amplitudes to the edges…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 João V. Cordeiro , Eduardo I. Duzzioni , Edgard P. M. Amorim

Shenvi, Kempe and Whaley's quantum random-walk search (SKW) algorithm [Phys. Rev. A 67, 052307 (2003)] is known to require $O(\sqrt N)$ number of oracle queries to find the marked element, where $N$ is the size of the search space. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-20 V. Potocek , A. Gabris , T. Kiss , I. Jex

Continuous time quantum walks provide an important framework for designing new algorithms and modelling quantum transport and state transfer problems. Often, the graph representing the structure of a problem contains certain symmetries that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-03 Leonardo Novo , Shantanav Chakraborty , Masoud Mohseni , Hartmut Neven , Yasser Omar

Restart is a common strategy observed in nature that accelerates first-passage processes and has been extensively studied using classical random walks. In the quantum regime, restart in continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs) has been shown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Kunal Shukla , Riddhi Chatterjee , C. M. Chandrashekar

We present a novel lackadaisical alternating quantum walk (LAQW) algorithm whose circuit depth scales as $\mathcal{O}(n^2+nt)$ for a $n\times n$ lattice over $t$ time steps. We show that this is a significant depth reduction compared to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Natalie Gibson , Niklas Keckman , Andrea Marchesin , Matti Raasakka , Ilkka Tittonen

Quantum algorithms have demonstrated provable speedups over classical counterparts, yet establishing a comprehensive theoretical framework to understand the quantum advantage remains a core challenge. In this work, we decode the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Si-Qi Zhou , Jin-Min Liang , Ziheng Ding , Zhihua Chen , Shao-Ming Fei , Zhihao Ma

We present various results on the scheme introduced , which is a quantum spatial-search algorithm on a two-dimensional (2D) square spatial grid, realized with a 2D Dirac discrete-time quantum walk (DQW) coupled to a Coulomb electric field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Thibault Fredon , Julien Zylberman , Pablo Arnault , Fabrice Debbasch

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

This article presents a novel and succinct algorithmic framework via alternating quantum walks, unifying quantum spatial search, state transfer and uniform sampling on a large class of graphs. Using the framework, we can achieve exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Qingwen Wang , Ying Jiang , Lvzhou Li

High-dimensional quantum systems can offer extended possibilities and multiple advantages while developing advanced quantum technologies. In this paper, we propose a class of quantum-walk architecture networks that admit the efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-12 Hengji Li , Jian Li , Xiubo Chen

This work examines the time complexity of quantum search algorithms on combinatorial $t$-designs with multiple marked elements using the continuous-time quantum walk. Through a detailed exploration of $t$-designs and their incidence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Pedro H. G. Lugão , Renato Portugal

A quantum random walk model is established on a one-dimensional periodic lattice that fluctuates between two possible states. This model is defined by Lindblad rate equations that incorporate the transition rates between the two lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Luis Octavio Castaños-Cervantes , Jesús Casado-Pascual

We study spatial search with continuous-time quantum walks on real-world complex networks. We use smaller replicas of the Internet network obtained with a recent geometric renormalization method introduced by Garc\'ia-P\'erez et al., Nat.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-19 Joonas Malmi , Matteo A. C. Rossi , Guillermo García-Pérez , Sabrina Maniscalco

How self-loops on vertices affect quantum walks is an interesting issue, and self-loops play important roles in quantum walk based algorithms. However, the original model that adjusting the effect of self-loops by changing their number has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-04 Huiquan Wang , Jie Zhou , Junjie Wu , Xun Yi

Quantum spatial search has been widely studied with most of the study focusing on quantum walk algorithms. We show that quantum walk algorithms are extremely sensitive to systematic errors. We present a recursive algorithm which offers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-15 Avatar Tulsi

The Maximum Matching problem has a quantum query complexity lower bound of $\Omega(n^{3/2})$ for graphs on $n$ vertices represented by an adjacency matrix. The current best quantum algorithm has the query complexity $O(n^{7/4})$, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Alcides Gomes Andrade Júnior , Akira Matsubayashi

We show a simple generalization of the quantum walk algorithm for search in backtracking trees by Montanaro (ToC 2018) to the case where vertices can have different times of computation. If a vertex $v$ in the tree of depth $D$ is computed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Jevgēnijs Vihrovs

We identify a key difference between quantum search by discrete- and continuous-time quantum walks: a discrete-time walk typically performs one walk step per oracle query, whereas a continuous-time walk can effectively perform multiple walk…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-24 Thomas G. Wong , Andris Ambainis