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We set the ground for a theory of quantum walks on graphs- the generalization of random walks on finite graphs to the quantum world. Such quantum walks do not converge to any stationary distribution, as they are unitary and reversible.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Dorit Aharonov , Andris Ambainis , Julia Kempe , Umesh Vazirani

We analyze a continuous-time quantum walk on a chimera graph, which is a graph of choice for designing quantum annealers, and we discover beautiful quantum-walk features such as localization that starkly distinguishes classical from quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 Shu Xu , Xiangxiang Sun , Jizhou Wu , Wei-Wei Zhang , Nigum Arshed , Barry C. Sanders

We present graph-based modeling abstractions to represent cyber-physical dependencies arising in complex systems. Specifically, we propose an algebraic graph abstraction to capture physical connectivity in complex optimization models and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-13 Jordan Jalving , Yankai Cao , Victor M. Zavala

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

Photonic molecules, i.e. artificial structures composed of coherently coupled optical cavities, are paradigmatic systems for investigating fundamental phenomena across photonics, quantum optics and topological physics. In recent years,…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-06 Tiantong Li , Katia Gallo

Link prediction is one of the fundamental problems in graph theory, critical for understanding and forecasting the evolution of complex systems like social and biological networks. While classical heuristics capture certain aspects of graph…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Priyank Dubey

Magnetic graphs, originally developed to model quantum systems under magnetic fields, have recently emerged as a powerful framework for analyzing complex directed networks. Existing research has primarily used the spectral properties of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-10 Yinan Huang , David F. Gleich , Pan Li

This tutorial article showcases the many varieties and uses of quantum walks. Discrete time quantum walks are introduced as counterparts of classical random walks. The emphasis is on the connections and differences between the two types of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-16 Daniel Reitzner , Daniel Nagaj , Vladimir Buzek

We develop a new framework that extends the quantum walk framework of Magniez, Nayak, Roland, and Santha, by utilizing the idea of quantum data structures to construct an efficient method of nesting quantum walks. Surprisingly, only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-24 Stacey Jeffery , Robin Kothari , Frederic Magniez

The presence of disorder and inhomogeneities in quantum networks has often been unexpectedly beneficial for both quantum and classical resources. Here, we experimentally realize a controllable inhomogenous Quantum Walk dynamics, which can…

Quantum walks obey unitary dynamics: they form closed quantum systems. The system becomes open if the walk suffers from imperfections represented as missing links on the underlying basic graph structure, described by dynamical percolation.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-11 Bálint Kollár , Tamás Kiss , Jaroslav Novotný , Igor Jex

Quantum walks have emerged as a transformative paradigm in quantum information processing and can be applied to various graph problems. This study explores discrete-time quantum walks on simplicial complexes, a higher-order generalization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Euijun Song

In this work we introduce the concept of a quantum walk on a hypergraph. We show that the staggered quantum walk model is a special case of a quantum walk on a hypergraph.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-10 Przemysław Sadowski , Łukasz Pawela , Paulina Lewandowska , Ryszard Kukulski

Networks constitute efficient tools for assessing universal features of complex systems. In physical contexts, classical as well as quantum, networks are used to describe a wide range of phenomena, such as phase transitions, intricate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-22 Jaroslav Novotný , Gernot Alber , Igor Jex

This paper explores the entanglement dynamics generated by interacting two-particle quantum walks on degree-regular and -irregular graphs. We performed spectral analysis of the time-evolution of both the particle probability distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-17 G. R. Carson , T. Loke , J. B. Wang

We analyze the solution of the coined quantum walk on a line. First, we derive the full solution, for arbitrary unitary transformations, by using a new approach based on the four "walk fields" which we show determine the dynamics. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 P. L. Knight , E. Roldan , J. E. Sipe

We investigate the graph isomorphism (GI) in some cospectral networks. Two graph are isomorphic when they are related to each other by a relabeling of the graph vertices. We want to investigate the GI in two scalable (n + 2)-regular graphs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-04 M. A. Jafarizadeh , F. Eghbalifam , S. Nami

We present a generalized definition of discrete-time quantum walks convenient for capturing a rather broad spectrum of walker's behavior on arbitrary graphs. It includes and covers both: the geometry of possible walker's positions with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 Jan Mareš , Jaroslav Novotný , Igor Jex

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

In this paper, we propose a novel approach that employs kinetic equations to describe the collective dynamics emerging from graph-mediated pairwise interactions in multi-agent systems. We formally show that for large graphs and specific…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-15 Marco Nurisso , Matteo Raviola , Andrea Tosin