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The indeterminism of quantum mechanics generally permits the independent specification of both an initial and a final condition on the state. Quantum pre-and-post-selection of states opens up a new, experimentally testable, sector of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Paul Davies

Quantum mechanics marks a radical departure from the classical understanding of Nature, fostering an inherent randomness which forbids a deterministic description; yet the most fundamental departure arises from something different. As shown…

In recent years, much research has been devoted to exploring contextuality in systems that are not strictly quantum, like classical light, and many theory-independent frameworks for contextuality analysis have been developed. It has raised…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Alisson Tezzin

Random walks behave very differently for classical and quantum particles. Here we unveil a ubiquitous distinctive behavior of random walks of a photon in a one-dimensional lattice in the presence of a finite number of traps, at which the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Stefano Longhi

There are presently two models for quantum walks on graphs. The "coined" walk uses discrete time steps, and contains, besides the particle making the walk, a second quantum system, the coin, that determines the direction in which the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mark Hillery , Janos Bergou , Edgar Feldman

We consider highly inaccurate measurements made on classical stochastic and quantum systems. In the quantum case such a \e{weak} measurement preserves coherence between the system's alternatives. We demonstrate that in both cases the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 D. Sokolovski , D. Alonso , S. Brouard

In this paper we extend the concept of persistence, well defined for classical stochastic dynamics, to the context of quantum dynamics. We demonstrate the idea via quantum random walk and a successive measurement scheme, where persistence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Sanchari Goswami , Parongama Sen , Arnab Das

The dynamics of a quantum nonlinear oscillator is studied in terms of its quasi-flow, a dynamical mapping of the classical phase plane that represents the time-evolution of the quantum observables. Explicit expressions are derived for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Omri Gat

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

While ultimately they are described by quantum mechanics, macroscopic mechanical systems are nevertheless observed to follow the trajectories predicted by classical mechanics. Hence, in the regime defining macroscopic physics, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tanmoy Bhattacharya , Salman Habib , Kurt Jacobs

The quantum walk is the quantum analogue of the well-known random walk, which forms the basis for models and applications in many realms of science. Its properties are markedly different from the classical counterpart and might lead to…

Quantum walks are standard tools for searching graphs for marked vertices, and they often yield quadratic speedups over a classical random walk's hitting time. In some exceptional cases, however, the system only evolves by sign flips,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-05 Thomas G. Wong , Raqueline A. M. Santos

A new model of quantum random walks is introduced, on lattices as well as on finite graphs. These quantum random walks take into account the behavior of open quantum systems. They are the exact quantum analogues of classical Markov chains.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-14 S. Attal , F. Petruccione , C. Sabot , I. Sinayskiy

Statistical classical mechanics and quantum mechanics are developed and well-known theories that represent a basis for modern physics. The two described theories are well known and have been well studied. As these theories contain numerous…

General Physics · Physics 2015-07-24 Oleg Kupervasser

Quantum walk acts obviously different from its classical counterpart, but decoherence will lessen and close the gap between them. To understand this process, it is necessary to investigate the evolution of quantum walk under different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Peng Xue , Yongsheng Zhang

We suggest a somewhat non-standard view on a set of curious, paradoxical from the standpoint of simple classical physics and everyday experience phenomena. There are the quantisation (discrete set of values) of the observables (e.g.,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-25 A. Anokhina , M. Satleikin , A. Sedova , A. Shukakidze

We study quantum transport on finite discrete structures and we model the process by means of continuous-time quantum walks. A direct and effective comparison between quantum and classical walks can be attained based on the average…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-08 E. Agliari , A. Blumen , O. Muelken

We present a detailed comparison of the motion of a classical and of a quantum particle in the presence of trapping sites, within the framework of continuous-time classical and quantum random walk. The main emphasis is on the qualitative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-03-12 P. L. Krapivsky , J. M. Luck , K. Mallick

Quantum walks constitute a rich area of quantum information science, where multipartite entanglement plays a central role in the dynamics and scalability of quantum advantage over classical simulators. In this work, we study the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Emil K. F. Donkersloot , René Sondenheimer , Jan Sperling

We study the simulation of the topological phases in three subsequent dimensions with quantum walks. We are mainly focused on the completion of a table for the protocols of the quantum walk that could simulate different family of the…

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