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We consider to what extent quantum walks can constitute models of thermalization, analogously to how classical random walks can be models for classical thermalization. In a quantum walk over a graph, a walker moves in a superposition of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 Shyam Dhamapurkar , Oscar Dahlsten

Quantum walk is one of the main tools for quantum algorithms. Defined by analogy to classical random walk, a quantum walk is a time-homogeneous quantum process on a graph. Both random and quantum walks can be defined either in continuous or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-10 Andrew M. Childs

Quantum discrete-time walkers have, since their introduction, demonstrated applications in algorithmic and in modeling and simulating a wide range of transport phenomena. They have long been considered the discrete-time and discrete space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Nicolas Jolly , Giuseppe Di Molfetta

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

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

We give a characterization of the line digraph of a regular digraph. We make use of the characterization, to show that the underlying digraph of a coined quantum random walk is a line digraph. We remark the connection between line digraphs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Simone Severini

We present a theoretical framework for the analysis of amplitude transfer in Quantum Variational Algorithms (QVAs) for combinatorial optimisation with mixing unitaries defined by vertex-transitive graphs, based on their continuous-time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-24 Edric Matwiejew , Jingbo B. Wang

A particular example is produced to prove that quantum walks can be used to simulate full-fledged discrete gauge theories. A new family of $2D$ walks is introduced and its continuous limit is shown to coincide with the dynamics of a Dirac…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Pablo Arnault , Fabrice Debbasch

Based on studies on four specific networks, we conjecture a general relation between the walk dimensions $d_{w}$ of discrete-time random walks and quantum walks with the (self-inverse) Grover coin. In each case, we find that $d_{w}$ of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 Stefan Boettcher , Stefan Falkner , Renato Portugal

Multilayer network is a potent platform which paves a way to study the interactions among entities in various networks with multiple types of relationships. In this study, the dynamics of discrete-time quantum walk on a multilayer network…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-05 M. N. Jayakody , Priodyuti Pradhan , Dana Ben Porath , E. Cohen

A discrete time quantum walk is known to be the single-particle sector of a quantum cellular automaton. Searching in this mathematical framework has interested the community since a long time. However, most results consider spatial search…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Mathieu Roget , Giuseppe Di Molfetta

In this work, we generalize the recently-introduced graph composition framework to the non-boolean setting. A quantum algorithm in this framework is represented by a hypergraph, where each hyperedge is adjacent to multiple vertices. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Arjan Cornelissen

Quantum walks provide a natural framework to approach graph problems with quantum computers, exhibiting speedups over their classical counterparts for tasks such as the search for marked nodes or the prediction of missing links.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Duarte Magano , João Moutinho , Bruno Coutinho

A quantum particle evolving by Schr\"odinger's equation contains, from the kinetic energy of the particle, a term in its Hamiltonian proportional to Laplace's operator. In discrete space, this is replaced by the discrete or graph Laplacian,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-16 Thomas G. Wong , Luís Tarrataca , Nikolay Nahimov

Randomly breaking connections in a graph alters its transport properties, a model used to describe percolation. In the case of quantum walks, dynamic percolation graphs represent a special type of imperfections, where the connections appear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-03 Bálint Kollár , Jaroslav Novotný , Tamás Kiss , Igor Jex

Quantum walks constitute important tools in different applications, especially in quantum algorithms. To a great extent their usefulness is due to unusual diffusive features, allowing much faster spreading than their classical counterparts.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-09 F. M. Andrade , M. G. E. da Luz

This paper presents a connection between the quantum walk and the absolute mathematics. The quantum walk is a quantum counterpart of the classical random walk. We especially deal with the Grover walk on a graph. The Grover walk is a typical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Jirô Akahori , Norio Konno , Rikuki Okamoto , Iwao Sato

In this note, we discuss a general definition of quantum random walks on graphs and illustrate with a simple graph the possibility of very different behavior between a classical random walk and its quantum analogue. In this graph,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew M. Childs , Edward Farhi , Sam Gutmann

We study the transition matrix of a quantum walk on strongly regular graphs. It is proposed by Emms, Hancock, Severini and Wilson in 2006, that the spectrum of $S^+(U^3)$, a matrix based on the amplitudes of walks in the quantum walk,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-28 Chris Godsil , Krystal Guo

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