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We consider a d-dimensional random quantum walk with site-dependent random coin operators. The corresponding transition coefficients are characterized by deterministic amplitudes times independent identically distributed site-dependent…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-04-06 Alain Joye

We analyze final-time dependent discrete-time quantum walks in one dimension. We compute asymptotics of the return probability of the quantum walk by a path counting approach. Moreover, we discuss a relation between the quantum walk and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-21 Yusuke Ide , Norio Konno , Takuya Machida , Etsuo Segawa

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

A quantum walker moves on the integers with four extra degrees of freedom, performing a coin-shift operation to alter its internal state and position at discrete units of time. The time evolution is described by a unitary process. We focus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-16 Takuya Machida , F. Alberto Grunbaum

We propose a physical implementation of the step operator of the discrete quantum walk for an electron in a one-dimensional chain of quantum dots. The operating principle of the step operator is based on locally enhanced Zeeman splitting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 K. A. van Hoogdalem , M. Blaauboer

We propose an implementation of a quantum walk on a circle on an optomechanical system by encoding the walker on the phase space of a radiation field and the coin on a two-level state of a mechanical resonator. The dynamics of the system is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-24 Jalil Khatibi Moqadam , Renato Portugal , Marcos Cesar de Oliveira

We present an approach to induce localization of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a one-dimensional lattice under the influence of unitary quantum walk evolution using disordered quantum coin operation. We introduce a discrete-time quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-25 C. M. Chandrashekar

We study the dynamics of a particle in continuous time and space, the displacement of which is governed by an internal degree of freedom (spin). In one definite limit, the so-called quantum random walk is recovered but, although quite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Claude Aslangul

In this work, we study the effect of a moving detector on a discrete time one dimensional Quantum Random Walk where the movement is realized in the form of hopping/shifts. The occupation probability $f(x,t;n,s)$ is estimated as the number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-10 Md Aquib Molla , Sanchari Goswami

We set the criteria under which superposition of causal order can be incorporated in to quantum walks. In particular, we show that only periodic quantum walks or those with at least one disorder exhibit Superposition of causal order under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Prateek Chawla , Shrikant Utagi , C. M. Chandrashekar

We consider the discrete time unitary dynamics given by a quantum walk on $\Z^d$ performed by a particle with internal degree of freedom, called coin state, according to the following iterated rule: a unitary update of the coin state takes…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Eman Hamza , Alain Joye

We analyze the application of the history state formalism to quantum walks. The formalism allows one to describe the whole walk through a pure quantum history state, which can be derived from a timeless eigenvalue equation. It naturally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 F. Lomoc , A. P. Boette , N. Canosa , R. Rossignoli

Entanglement with single-particle states is advantageous in quantum technology because of their ability to encode and process information more securely than their multi-particle analogs. Threeway and nonlocal two-way entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Dinesh Kumar Panda , Colin Benjamin

In this paper, we consider discrete time quantum walks on graphs with coin focusing on the decentralized model, where the coin operation is allowed to change with the vertex of the graph. When the coin operations can be modified at every…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-15 Francesca Albertini , Domenico D'Alessandro

We investigate the use of discrete-time quantum walks to sample from an almost-uniform distribution, in the absence of any external source of randomness. Integers are encoded on the vertices of a cycle graph, and a quantum walker evolves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 Marco Radaelli , Claudia Benedetti , Stefano Olivares

We analyze the properties of a two and three dimensional quantum walk that are inspired by the idea of a brane-world model put forward by Rubakov and Shaposhnikov [1]. In that model, particles are dynamically confined on the brane due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 I. Marquez-Martin , G. Di Molfetta , A. Perez

Discrete-time quantum walks are considered a counterpart of random walks and the study for them has been getting attention since around 2000. In this paper, we focus on a quantum walk which generates a probability distribution splitting to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-08 Takuya Machida

Consider a discrete-time quantum walk on the $N$-cycle governed by the following condition: at every time step of the walk, the option persists, with probability $p$, of exercising a projective measurement on the coin degree of freedom. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-16 Chaobin Liu , Nelson Petulante

A quantum random walk on the integers exhibits pseudo memory effects, in that its probability distribution after N steps is determined by reshuffling the first N distributions that arise in a classical random walk with the same initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Anthony J. Bracken , Demosthenes Ellinas , Ioannis Tsohantjis

Using the concept of von Neumann entropy, we quantify the information content of the various components of the quantum walk system, including the mutual information between its subsystems (coin and position) and use it to give a precise…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-10-11 Clement Ampadu