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Quantum walks represent paradigmatic quantum evolutions, enabling powerful applications in the context of topological physics and quantum computation. They have been implemented in diverse photonic architectures, but the realization of a…

Quantum walks, both discrete (coined) and continuous time, form the basis of several quantum algorithms and have been used to model processes such as transport in spin chains and quantum chemistry. The enhanced spreading and mixing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-10 Godfrey Leung , Paul Knott , Joe Bailey , Viv Kendon

Quantum walk is a key operation in quantum computing, simulation, communication and information. Here, we report for the first time the demonstration of quantum walks and localized quantum walks in a new type of optical fibers having a ring…

We derive the continuous-time limit of discrete quantum walks with topological phases. We show the existence of a continuous-time limit that preserves their topological phases. We consider both simple-step and split-step walks, and derive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Radhakrishnan Balu , Daniel Castillo , George Siopsis , Christian Weedbrook

Quantum walks underlie an important class of quantum computing algorithms, and represent promising approaches in various simulations and practical applications. Here we design stroboscopically monitored quantum walks and their subsequent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Quancheng Liu , David A. Kessler , Eli Barkai

We study the quantum walk of two interacting particles on a line with an interface separating two topologically distinct regions. The interaction induces a localization-delocalization transition of the edge state at the interface. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Alberto D. Verga , Ricardo Gabriel Elias

We propose categories of $1$-dimensional and multi-dimensional quantum walks. In the categories, an object is a quantum walk, and a morphism is an intertwining operator between two quantum walks. The new framework enables us to discuss…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 Hiroki Sako

Topology is key in describing unconventional quantum phases of matter and devising robust quantum technology. Exactly how topology mixes with quantum mechanics remains largely unclear, as testified by the lack of a unifying microscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Eugenio DelRe , Paolo Di Porto

Quantum walks have been employed widely to develop new tools for quantum information processing recently. A natural quantum walk dynamics of interacting particles can be used to implement efficiently the universal quantum computation. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-04 Alexey A. Melnikov , Leonid E. Fedichkin

Quantum walks provide simple models of various fundamental processes. It is pivotal to know when the dynamics underlying a walk lead to quantum advantages just by examining its statistics. A walk with many indistinguishable particles and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-03 Magdalena Stobińska , Peter P. Rohde , Paweł Kurzyński

The study of quantum walks has been shown to have a wide range of applications in areas such as artificial intelligence, the study of biological processes, and quantum transport. The quantum stochastic walk, which allows for incoherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-20 Luke C. G. Govia , Bruno G. Taketani , Peter K. Schuhmacher , Frank K. Wilhelm

The quantum random walk is a possible approach to construct new quantum algorithms. Several groups have investigated the quantum random walk and experimental schemes were proposed. In this paper we present the experimental implementation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jiangfeng Du , Hui Li , Xiaodong Xu , Mingjun Shi , Jihui Wu , Xianyi Zhou , Rongdian Han

The concept of open quantum walks (OQW), quantum walks exclusively driven by the interaction with the external environment, is reviewed. OQWs are formulated as discrete completely positive maps on graphs. The basic properties of OQWs are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-11 I. Sinayskiy , F. Petruccione

We present a review on the progress in the understanding and characterization of holonomy and topology of a discrete-time quantum walk architecture, consisting of a unitary step given by a sequence of two non-commuting rotations in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-05 G. Puentes

A random walk is known as a random process which describes a path including a succession of random steps in the mathematical space. It has increasingly been popular in various disciplines such as mathematics and computer science.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Feng Xia , Jiaying Liu , Hansong Nie , Yonghao Fu , Liangtian Wan , Xiangjie Kong

Quantum Cryptography is a rapidly developing field of research that benefits from the properties of Quantum Mechanics in performing cryptographic tasks. Quantum walks are a powerful model for quantum computation and very promising for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 C. Vlachou , J. Rodrigues , P. Mateus , N. Paunković , A. Souto

The quantum switch, a process enabling a coherent superposition of different orders of quantum channels, has garnered significant attention due to its ability to enable noiseless communications through noisy channels, such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Claudio Pellitteri , Marcello Caleffi , Angela Sara Cacciapuoti

We present an introduction to coined quantum walks on regular graphs, which have been developed in the past few years as an alternative to quantum Fourier transforms for underpinning algorithms for quantum computation. We then describe our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Viv Kendon , Ben Tregenna

Quantum walks have a host of applications, ranging from quantum computing to the simulation of biological systems. We present an intrinsically stable, deterministic implementation of discrete quantum walks with single photons in space. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-21 M. A. Broome , A. Fedrizzi , B. P. Lanyon , I. Kassal , A. Aspuru-Guzik , A. G. White

We give a short overview over recent developments on quantum graphs and outline the connection between general quantum graphs and so-called quantum random walks.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Gregor Tanner