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Quantum contextuality, where measurement outcomes depend on the measurement context, implies a failure of classical realism in quantum systems. As recently shown, the transition between measurement contexts can be mapped onto the path that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Yuki Sagawa , Jonte R. Hance , Holger F. Hofmann , Takafumi Ono

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

The average result of a weak measurement of some observable $A$ can, under post-selection of the measured quantum system, exceed the largest eigenvalue of $A$. The nature of weak measurements, as well as the presence of post-selection and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-13 Matthew F. Pusey

That quantum correlations can be generated over time between the spin and the position of a quantum walker is indisputable. The creation of bipartite entanglement has also been reported for two-walker systems. In this scenario, however,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Alexandre C. Orthey , R. M. Angelo

Although quantum walks exhibit peculiar properties that distinguish them from random walks, classical behavior can be recovered in the asymptotic limit by destroying the coherence of the pure state associated to the quantum system. Here I…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-16 Miquel Montero

Dynamical phase transitions in the relaxation behavior of stochastic quantum walks are investigated, focusing on systems where coherent unitary evolution is periodically interrupted by dephasing. This interplay leads to a classicalization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Stefano Longhi

Quantum walks have emerged as an interesting approach to quantum information processing, exhibiting many unique properties compared to the analogous classical random walk. Here we introduce a model for a discrete-time quantum walk with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-08 Peter P. Rohde , Gavin K. Brennen , Alexei Gilchrist

The non-classicality of single quantum systems can be formalised using the notion of contextuality. But can contextuality be convincingly demonstrated in an experiment, without reference to the quantum formalism? The operational approach to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Matthew F. Pusey , Lídia del Rio , Bettina Meyer

We review canonical experiments on systems that have pushed the boundary between the quantum and classical worlds towards much larger scales, and discuss their unique features that enable quantum coherence to survive. Because the types of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Tristan Farrow , Vlatko Vedral

The behaviors of one-dimensional quantum random walks are strikingly different from those of classical ones. However, when decoherence is involved, the limiting distributions take on many classical features over time. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kai Zhang

Quantum walks can reconstruct quantum algorithms for quantum computation, where the precise controls of quantum state transfers between arbitrary distant sites are required. Here, we investigate quantum walks using a periodically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-06 Haruna Katayama , Noriyuki Hatakenaka , Toshiyuki Fujii

We address decoherence and classicalization of continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs) on graphs. In particular, we investigate three different models of decoherence, and employ the quantum-classical (QC) dynamical distance as a figure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-11 Gabriele Bressanini , Claudia Benedetti , Matteo G. A. Paris

In the histories formulation of quantum theory, sets of coarse-grained histories that are consistent obey the classical probability rules. It has been argued that these sets can describe the quasi-classical behaviour of closed quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Adamantia Zampeli , Georgios E. Pavlou , Petros Wallden

Coherent evolution governs the behaviour of all quantum systems, but in nature it is often subjected to influence of a classical environment. For analysing quantum transport phenomena quantum walks emerge as suitable model systems. In…

We address continuous-time quantum walks on graphs in the presence of time- and space-dependent noise. Noise is modeled as generalized dynamical percolation, i.e. classical time-dependent fluctuations affecting the tunneling amplitudes of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-10 Claudia Benedetti , Matteo A. C. Rossi , Matteo G. A. Paris

The transport of ultra-cold atoms in magneto-optical potentials provides a clean setting in which to investigate the distinct predictions of classical versus quantum dynamics for a system with coupled degrees of freedom. In this system,…

Random walks are fundamental models of stochastic processes with applications in various fields including physics, biology, and computer science. We study classical and quantum random walks under the influence of stochastic resetting on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-20 Sascha Wald , Lucas Böttcher

Recently, it has been shown that one-dimensional quantum walks can mix more quickly than classical random walks, suggesting that quantum Monte Carlo algorithms can outperform their classical counterparts. We study two quantum walks on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cristopher Moore , Alexander Russell

While quantum computers are expected to yield considerable advantages over classical devices, the precise features of quantum theory enabling these advantages remain unclear. Contextuality--the denial of a notion of classical physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-11 Nadish de Silva

Temporal fluctuations in the Hadamard walk on circles are studied. A temporal standard deviation of probability that a quantum random walker is positive at a given site is introduced to manifest striking differences between quantum and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Norio Inui , Yoshinao Konishi , Norio Konno , Takahiro Soshi