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The so-called welded tree problem provides an example of a black-box problem that can be solved exponentially faster by a quantum walk than by any classical algorithm. Given the name of a special ENTRANCE vertex, a quantum walk can find…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-02 Andrew M. Childs , Matthew Coudron , Amin Shiraz Gilani

Quantum reservoir computing (QRC) harnesses driven quantum dynamics for time-series processing, yet the mechanisms behind the differing performance levels across its many implementations remain unclear. We show that apparently unrelated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Saud Čindrak , Lara Giebeler , Niclas Götting , Christopher Gies , Kathy Lüdge

Quantum computing is a rapidly expanding field with applications ranging from optimization all the way to complex machine learning tasks. Quantum memories, while lacking in practical quantum computers, have the potential to bring quantum…

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

Associative memory refers to the ability to relate a memory with an input and targets the restoration of corrupted patterns. It has been intensively studied in classical physical systems, as in neural networks where an attractor dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Adrià Labay-Mora , Eliana Fiorelli , Roberta Zambrini , Gian Luca Giorgi

Quantum walks, the quantum analogue of the classical random walk, have been shown to underpin quantum algorithms for fluid dynamics. We propose the quantum half-adder gate method for quantum walks as a good benchmark algorithm, specifically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Steph Foulds , Viv Kendon

Quantum computing is a hotspot technology for its potential to accelerate specific applications by exploiting quantum parallelism. However, current physical quantum computers are limited to a relatively small scale, simulators based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Jingcheng Shen , Linbo Long , Masao Okita , Fumihiko Ino

Modular quantum architectures have emerged as a promising approach for scaling quantum computing systems by connecting multiple Quantum Processing Units (QPUs). However, this approach introduces significant challenges due to costly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Sokea Sang , Leanghok Hour , Youngsun Han

A quantum computing algorithm for rhythm generation is presented, which aims to expand and explore quantum computing applications in the arts, particularly in music. The algorithm maps quantum random walk trajectories onto a rhythmspace --…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 María Aguado-Yáñez , Karl Jansen , Daniel Gómez-Marín , Sergi Jordà

I review and expand the model of quantum associative memory that I have recently proposed. In this model binary patterns of n bits are stored in the quantum superposition of the appropriate subset of the computational basis of n qbits.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlo A. Trugenberger

We present an experimental implementation of the coined discrete time quantum walk on a square using a three qubit liquid state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) quantum information processor (QIP). Contrary to its classical counterpart, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. A. Ryan , M. Laforest , J. C. Boileau , R. Laflamme

Quantum memories are regarded as one of the fundamental building blocks of linear-optical quantum computation and long-distance quantum communication. A long standing goal to realize scalable quantum information processing is to build a…

We formulate a framework for discrete-time quantum walks, motivated by classical random walks with memory. We present a specific representation of the classical walk with memory 2 on which this is based. The framework has no need for coin…

A quantum memory is a system that enables transfer, storage, and retrieval of optical quantum states by ON/OFF switching of the control signal in each stages of the memory. In particular, it is known that, for perfect transfer of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Hideaki Nakao , Naoki Yamamoto

The coherent superposition of position states in a quantum walk (QW) can be precisely engineered towards the desired distributions to meet the need of quantum information applications. The coherent distribution can make full use of quantum…

We solve an open problem by constructing quantum walks that not only detect but also find marked vertices in a graph. In the case when the marked set $M$ consists of a single vertex, the number of steps of the quantum walk is quadratically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-01 Hari Krovi , Frédéric Magniez , Maris Ozols , Jérémie Roland

Hitting the exit node from the entrance node faster on a graph is one of the properties that quantum walk algorithms can take advantage of to outperform classical random walk algorithms. Especially, continuous-time quantum walks on…

Quantum walks are powerful tools not only to construct the quantum speedup algorithms but also to describe specific models in physical processes. Furthermore, the discrete time quantum walk has been experimentally realized in various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-29 Yutaka Shikano , Kota Chisaki , Etsuo Segawa , Norio Konno

Photons can carry spin angular momentum (SAM) and orbital angular momentum (OAM), which can be used to realize a qubit system and a high-dimension system respectively. This spin-orbital system is very suitable for implementing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-20 Pei Zhang , Bi-Heng Liu , Rui-Feng Liu , Hong-Rong Li , Fu-Li Li , Guang-Can Guo

Proposals for quantum random access memory (QRAM) generally have a binary-tree structure, and thus require hardware that is exponential in the depth of the QRAM. For solid-state based devices, a fabrication yield that is less than $100\%$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 D. K. Weiss , Shifan Xu , Shruti Puri , Yongshan Ding , S. M. Girvin