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In this paper, we propose a circuit design for implementing quantum walks on complex networks. Quantum walks are powerful tools for various graph-based applications such as spatial search, community detection, and node classification.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Rei Sato , Kazuhiro Saito

Quantum walk has been regarded as a primitive to universal quantum computation. By using the operations required to describe the single particle discrete-time quantum walk on a position space we demonstrate the realization of the universal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Shivani Singh , Prateek Chawla , Anupam Sarkar , C. M. Chandrashekar

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…

A discrete time quantum walk is known to be the single-particle sector of a quantum cellular automaton. For a long time, these models have interested the community for their nice properties such as locality or translation invariance. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Mathieu Roget , Giuseppe Di Molfetta

The random walk formalism is used across a wide range of applications, from modelling share prices to predicting population genetics. Likewise quantum walks have shown much potential as a frame- work for developing new quantum algorithms.…

We introduce the driven discrete time quantum walk, where walkers are added during the walk instead of only at the beginning. This leads to interference in walker number and very different dynamics when compared to the original quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-01 Craig S. Hamilton , Sonja Barkhofen , Linda Sansoni , Igor Jex , Christine Silberhorn

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…

The quantum walk was originally proposed as a quantum mechanical analogue of the classical random walk, and has since become a powerful tool in quantum information science. In this paper, we show that discrete time quantum walks provide a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-30 Takuya Kitagawa , Mark S. Rudner , Erez Berg , Eugene Demler

Nowadays, quantum simulation schemes come in two flavours. Either they are continuous-time discrete-space models (a.k.a Hamiltonian-based), pertaining to non-relativistic quantum mechanics. Or they are discrete-spacetime models (a.k.a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-18 Giuseppe Di Molfetta , Pablo Arrighi

Quantum walks, the quantum mechanical counterpart of classical random walks, is an advanced tool for building quantum algorithms that has been recently shown to constitute a universal model of quantum computation. Quantum walks is now a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-01 Salvador E. Venegas-Andraca

The problem of simulating through quantum walks Dirac fermions in arbitrary curved space-times and coordinates is revisited, taking (1 + 1)D space-times as an example. A new shift or translation operator on the grid is introduced, to take…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-24 Fabrice Debbasch

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

Quantum walk (QW) provides a versatile tool to study fundamental physics and also to make a variety of practical applications. We here start with the recent idea of {\it nonlinear} QW and show that introducing {\it nonlinearity} to QW can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-29 Chang-Woo Lee , Paweł Kurzyński , Hyunchul Nha

A quantum algorithm that solves the time-dependent Dirac equation on a digital quantum computer is developed and analyzed. The time evolution is performed by an operator splitting decomposition technique that allows for a mapping of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-03 F. Fillion-Gourdeau , S. MacLean , R. Laflamme

Quantum cellular automata have been recently considered as a fundamental approach to quantum field theory, resorting to a precise automaton, linear in the field, for the Dirac equation in one dimension. In such linear case a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-21 Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano , Nicola Mosco , Paolo Perinotti , Alessandro Tosini

Quantum walks have proven to be a universal model for quantum computation and to provide speed-up in certain quantum algorithms. The discrete-time quantum walk (DTQW) model, among others, is one of the most suitable candidates for circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Luca Razzoli , Gabriele Cenedese , Maria Bondani , Giuliano Benenti

A discrete-time Quantum Walk (QW) is essentially an operator driving the evolution of a single particle on the lattice, through local unitaries. Some QWs admit a continuum limit, leading to well-known physics partial differential equations,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-20 Pablo Arrighi , Giuseppe Di Molfetta , Iván Márquez-Martín , Armando Pérez

The Dirac equation can be modelled as a quantum walk, with the quantum walk being: discrete in time and space (i.e. a unitary evolution of the wave-function of a particle on a lattice); homogeneous (i.e. translation-invariant and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-07 Pablo Arrighi , Marcelo Forets , Vincent Nesme

Numerical methods for the 1-D Dirac equation based on operator splitting and on the quantum lattice Boltzmann (QLB) schemes are reviewed. It is shown that these discretizations fall within the class of quantum walks, i.e. discrete maps for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-30 Sauro Succi , Francois Fillion-Gourdeau , Silvia Palpacelli

Discrete-time quantum walks (QWs) represent robust and versatile platforms for the controlled engineering of single particle quantum dynamics, and have attracted special attention due to their algorithmic applications in quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-14 Simon Moulieras , Maciej Lewenstein , Graciana Puentes