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Quantum walks in an elaborately designed graph, is a powerful tool simulating physical and topological phenomena, constructing analog quantum algorithms and realizing universal quantum computing. Integrated photonics technology has emerged…

There are few known exponential speedups for quantum algorithms and these tend to fall into even fewer families. One speedup that has mostly resisted generalization is the use of quantum walks to traverse the welded-tree graph, due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Shankar Balasubramanian , Tongyang Li , Aram Harrow

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

Distributing arbitrary graph states across quantum networks is a central challenge for modular quantum computing and measurement-based quantum communication. We introduce the phase quantum walk (PQW), a discrete-time quantum walk in which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Soumyojyoti Dutta

The coined quantum walk is a discretization of the Dirac equation of relativistic quantum mechanics, and it is the basis of many quantum algorithms. We investigate how it searches the complete bipartite graph of $N$ vertices for one of $k$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-04 Mason L. Rhodes , Thomas G. Wong

Quantum walks have been useful for designing quantum algorithms that outperform their classical versions for a variety of search problems. Most of the papers, however, consider a search space containing a single marked element only. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-12 Nikolajs Nahimovs , Raqueline A. M. Santos

Quantum walks are more than tools for building quantum algorithms. They have been used effectively to model and simulate quantum dynamics in many complex physical processes. Particularly, a variant of discrete-time quantum walk known as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-05 P. A. Ameen Yasir , Abhaya S. Hegde , C. M. Chandrashekar

A single-loop scenario is proposed to realize nonadiabatic geometric quantum computation. Conventionally, a so-called multi-loop approach is used to remove the dynamical phase accumulated in the operation process for geometric quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xin-Ding Zhang , Shi-Liang Zhu , L. Hu , Z. D. Wang

We introduce a continuous-time quantum walk on an ultrametric space corresponding to the set of p-adic integers and compute its time-averaged probability distribution. It is shown that localization occurs for any location of the ultrametric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-24 Norio Konno

We study the entanglement dynamics of discrete time quantum walks acting on bounded finite sized graphs. We demonstrate that, depending on system parameters, the dynamics may be monotonic, oscillatory but highly regular, or quasi-periodic.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-07 Peter P. Rohde , Alessandro Fedrizzi , Timothy C. Ralph

The lackadaisical quantum walk, which is a quantum walk with a weighted self-loop at each vertex, has been shown to speed up dispersion on the line and improve spatial search on the complete graph and periodic square lattice. In these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-07 Mason L. Rhodes , Thomas G. Wong

Quantum walks have been shown to be fruitful tools in analysing the dynamic properties of quantum systems. This article proposes to use quantum walks as an approach to Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs). QNNs replace binary McCulloch-Pitts…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 Maria Schuld , Ilya Sinayskiy , Francesco Petruccione

In some of the earliest work on quantum mechanical computers, Feynman showed how to implement universal quantum computation by the dynamics of a time-independent Hamiltonian. I show that this remains possible even if the Hamiltonian is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-04 Andrew M. Childs

We propose a robust and efficient way to store and transport quantum information via one-dimensional discrete time quantum walks. We show how to attain an effective dispersionless wave packet evolution using only two types of local unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-30 Rafael Vieira , Gustavo Rigolin , Edgard P. M. Amorim

Quantum walks in general graphs, or more specifically scattering on graphs, encompass enough complexity to perform universal quantum computation. Any given quantum circuit can be broken down into single- and two-qubit gates, which can then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Luna Lima Keller , Daniel Jost Brod

We show how to construct discrete-time quantum walks on directed, Eulerian graphs. These graphs have tails on which the particle making the walk propagates freely, and this makes it possible to analyze the walks in terms of scattering…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Edgar Feldman , Mark Hillery

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

Given the extensive application of classical random walks to classical algorithms in a variety of fields, their quantum analogue in quantum walks is expected to provide a fruitful source of quantum algorithms. So far, however, such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-26 B. L. Douglas , J. B. Wang

The "quantum walk" has emerged recently as a paradigmatic process for the dynamic simulation of complex quantum systems, entanglement production and quantum computation. Hitherto, photonic implementations of quantum walks have mainly been…

Quantum walks with one-dimensional translational symmetry are important for quantum algorithms, where the speed-up of the diffusion speed can be reached if long-range couplings are added. Our work studies a scheme of a ring under the strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Yixiang Zhang , Xin Qiao , Luojia Wang , Yanyan He , Zhaohui Dong , Xianfeng Chen , Luqi Yuan