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Unitary Coined Discrete-Time Quantum Walks (UC-DTQW) constitute a universal model of quantum computation, meaning that any computation done by a general purpose quantum computer can either be done using the UC-DTQW framework. In the last…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Allan Wing-Bocanegra , Salvador E. Venegas-Andraca

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

Dynamical evolution of systems with sparse Hamiltonians can always be recognized as continuous time quantum walks (CTQWs) on graphs. In this paper, we analyze the short time asymptotics of CTQWs. In recent studies, it was shown that for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Balázs Endre Szigeti , Gábor Homa , Zoltán Zimborás , Norbert Barankai

Open Quantum Walks (OQW) are a type of quantum walk governed by the system's interaction with its environment. We explore the time evolution and the limit behavior of the OQW framework for Quantum Computation and show how we can represent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Pedro Linck Maciel , Nadja K. Bernardes

Topological phases, edge states, and flat bands in synthetic quantum systems are a key resource for topological quantum computing and noise-resilient information processing. We introduce a scheme based on step-dependent quantum walks on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Dinesh Kumar Panda , Colin Benjamin

Continuous-time quantum walk is one of the alternative approaches to quantum computation, where a universal set of quantum gates can be achieved by scattering a quantum walker on some specially-designed structures embedded in a sparse graph…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-11 Fan Wang , Bin Cheng , Zi-Wei Cui , Man-Hong Yung

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

We study the existence of quantum state transfer on non-integral circulant graphs. We find that continuous time quantum walks on quantum networks based on certain circulant graphs with $2^k$ $\left(k\in\mathbb{Z}\right)$ vertices exhibit…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-09 Hiranmoy Pal

In this paper, we investigate continuous-time quantum walk on star graphs. It is shown that quantum central limit theorem for a continuous-time quantum walk on star graphs for $N$-fold star power graph, which are invariant under the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Salimi

Quantum and random walks have been shown to be equivalent in the following sense: a time-dependent random walk can be constructed such that its vertex distribution at all time instants is identical to the vertex distribution of any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Matheus G. Andrade , Franklin de Lima Marquezino , Daniel R. Figueiredo

Quantum walks have frequently envisioned the behavior of a quantum state traversing a classically defined, generally finite, graph structure. While this approach has already generated significant results, it imposes a strong assumption: all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 John C Vining , Howard A. Blair

Quantum walks, both discrete (coined) and continuous time, on a general graph of N vertices with undirected edges are reviewed in some detail. The resource requirements for implementing a quantum walk as a program on a quantum computer are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Viv Kendon

We present a Mathematica package, QSWalk, to simulate the time evaluation of Quantum Stochastic Walks (QSWs) on arbitrary directed and weighted graphs. QSWs are a generalization of continuous time quantum walks that incorporate both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Peter E. Falloon , Jeremy Rodriguez , Jingbo B. Wang

Quantum-circuit implementations of continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs) can provide an efficient route to model graph-based algorithms. However, constructing circuits that faithfully reproduce CTQW dynamics across arbitrary graphs remains…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Sabyasachi Chakraborty , Rohit Sarma Sarkar , Sonjoy Majumder , Rohit Kishan Ray

Quantum walks on graphs are fundamental to quantum computing and have led to many interesting open problems in algebraic graph theory. This review article highlights three key classes of open problems in this domain; perfect state transfer,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Gabriel Coutinho , Krystal Guo

In this paper, we consider a continuous-time quantum walk based search algorithm. We introduce equitable partition of the graph and perfect state transfer on it. By these two methods, we can calculate the success probability and the finding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-19 Yusuke Ide , Akihiro Narimatsu

A particular example is produced to prove that quantum walks can be used to simulate full-fledged discrete gauge theories. A new family of $2D$ walks is introduced and its continuous limit is shown to coincide with the dynamics of a Dirac…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Pablo Arnault , Fabrice Debbasch

Quantum walks are at the heart of modern quantum technologies. They allow to deal with quantum transport phenomena and are an advanced tool for constructing novel quantum algorithms. Quantum walks on graphs are fundamentally different from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Alexey A. Melnikov , Leonid E. Fedichkin , Alexander Alodjants

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

Various quantum-walk based algorithms have been proposed to analyse and rank the centrality of graph vertices. However, issues arise when working with directed graphs --- the resulting non-Hermitian Hamiltonian leads to non-unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 J. A. Izaac , J. B. Wang , P. C. Abbott , X. S. Ma