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Open Quantum Walks (OQW) are a type of quantum walk governed by the system's interaction with its environment. We explore the time evolution and the limit behavior of the OQW framework for Quantum Computation and show how we can represent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Pedro Linck Maciel , Nadja K. Bernardes

Quantum versions of random walks on the line and the cycle show a quadratic improvement over classical random walks in their spreading rates and mixing times respectively. Non-unitary quantum walks can provide a useful optimisation of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-25 Viv Kendon , Olivier Maloyer

The Hiperwalk package is designed to facilitate the simulation of quantum walks using heterogeneous high-performance computing, taking advantage of the parallel processing power of diverse processors such as CPUs, GPUs, and acceleration…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-13 Paulo Motta , Gustavo A. Bezerra , Anderson F. P. Santos , Renato Portugal

Faster algorithms, novel cryptographic mechanisms, and alternative methods of communication become possible when the model underlying information and computation changes from a classical mechanical model to a quantum mechanical one. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-29 Eleanor G. Rieffel

Multi-dimensional quantum walks can exhibit highly non-trivial topological structure, providing a powerful tool for simulating quantum information and transport systems. We present a flexible implementation of a 2D optical quantum walk on a…

A proof that continuous time quantum walks are universal for quantum computation, using unweighted graphs of low degree, has recently been presented by Childs [PRL 102 180501 (2009)]. We present a version based instead on the discrete time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-06 Neil B. Lovett , Sally Cooper , Matthew Everitt , Matthew Trevers , Viv Kendon

Quantum walks are recognizably useful for the development of new quantum algorithms, as well as for the investigation of several physical phenomena in quantum systems. Actual implementations of quantum walks face technological difficulties…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-31 Renato Portugal , Marcos Cesar de Oliveira , Jalil Khatibi Moqadam

Quantum walks are versatile simulators of topological phases and phase transitions as observed in condensed matter physics. Here, we utilize a step dependent coin in quantum walks and investigate what topological phases we can simulate with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-16 S. Panahiyan , S. Fritzsche

This dissertation presents investigations on dynamics of discrete-time quantum walk and some of its applications. Quantum walks has been exploited as an useful tool for quantum algorithms in quantum computing. Beyond quantum computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-25 C. M. Chandrashekar

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

Future quantum computers are anticipated to be able to perform simulations of quantum many-body systems and quantum field theories that lie beyond the capabilities of classical computation. This will lead to new insights and predictions for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-14 Martin J. Savage

The quantum walk (QW) is the term given to a family of algorithms governing the evolution of a discrete quantum system and as such has a founding role in the study of quantum computation. We contribute to the investigation of QW phenomena…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-02 Hao Luo , Peng Xue

Recently Quantum Computation has generated a lot of interest due to the discovery of a quantum algorithm which can factor large numbers in polynomial time. The usefulness of a quantum com puter is limited by the effect of errors. Simulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kevin M. Obenland , Alvin M. Despain

This article aims to provide an introductory survey on quantum random walks. Starting from a physical effect to illustrate the main ideas we will introduce quantum random walks, review some of their properties and outline their striking…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Julia Kempe

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

This manuscript gathers and subsumes a long series of works on using QW to simulate transport phenomena. Quantum Walks (QWs) consist of single and isolated quantum systems, evolving in discrete or continuous time steps according to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-23 Giuseppe Di Molfetta

Quantum walks, both discrete and continuous, serve as fundamental tools in quantum information processing with diverse applications. This work introduces a hybrid quantum walk model that integrates the coin mechanism of discrete walks with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Tianen Chen , Yun Shang

Quantum random walks have been much studied recently, largely due to their highly nonclassical behavior. In this paper, we study one possible route to classical behavior for the discrete quantum random walk on the line: the use of multiple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Todd A. Brun , Hilary A. Carteret , Andris Ambainis

Quantum computers are designed to outperform standard computers by running quantum algorithms. Areas in which quantum algorithms can be applied include cryptography, search and optimisation, simulation of quantum systems, and solving large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-24 Ashley Montanaro

Quantum walks with memory(QWM) are a type of modified quantum walks that record the walker's latest path. As we know, only two kinds of QWM are presented up to now. It is desired to design more QWM for research, so that we can explore the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Dan Li , Michael Mc Gettrick , Fei Gao , Jie Xu , Qiao-Yan Wen