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We investigate the question of unitarity of evolution between hypersurfaces in quantum field theory in curved spacetime from the perspective of the general boundary formulation. Unitarity thus means unitarity of the quantum operator that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-25 Daniele Colosi , Robert Oeckl

We exhibit a way to associate a quantum walk (QW) on the non-negative integers to any probability measure on the unit circle. This forces us to consider one step transitions that are not traditionally allowed. We illustrate this in the case…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-11-30 F. A. Grunbaum , L. Velazquez

We derive the continuous spacetime limit of the one dimensional lazy discrete time quantum walk, obtaining explicit macroscopic evolution equations for a three state model in the presence of decoherence. While continuum limits of two state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Lara Janiurek , Viv Kendon

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 familiar PDEs (e.g. the Dirac equation). Recently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Pablo Arrighi , Stefano Facchini

In this article we present an effective Hamiltonian approach for Discrete Time Quantum Random Walk. A form of the Hamiltonian for one dimensional quantum walk has been prescribed, utilizing the fact that Hamiltonians are the generators of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 Debajyoti Sarkar , Niladri Paul , Kaushik Bhattacharya , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

A discrete-time quantum walk on a graph is the repeated application of a unitary evolution operator to a Hilbert space corresponding to the graph. If this unitary evolution operator has an associated group of symmetries, then for certain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hari Krovi , Todd A. Brun

In this series of works, we study exactly solvable non-unitary time evolutions in one-dimensional quantum critical systems ranging from quantum quenches to time-dependent drivings. In this part I, we are motivated by the recent works of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-30 Xueda Wen

We compute the Witten index of one-dimensional gauged linear sigma models with at least ${\mathcal N}=2$ supersymmetry. In the phase where the gauge group is broken to a finite group, the index is expressed as a certain residue integral. It…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Kentaro Hori , Heeyeon Kim , Piljin Yi

We study quantum mechanical systems with $\mathfrak{osp}(4^{*}|4)$ superconformal symmetry. We classify unitary lowest-weight representations of this superconformal algebra and define an index which receives contributions from short and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-01 Nick Dorey , Andrew Singleton

In this work we study the unitary time-evolutions of quantum systems defined on infinite-dimensional separable time-dependent Hilbert spaces. Two possible cases are considered: a quantum system defined on a stochastic interval and another…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Luca Curcuraci , Stefano Bacchi , Angelo Bassi

We provide a new perspective on non-Hermitian evolution in quantum mechanics by emphasizing the same method as in the Hermitian quantum evolution. We first give a precise description of the non unitary evolution, and collecting the basic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-21 Mustapha Maamache

A new family of discrete-time quantum walks (DTQWs) on the line with an exact discrete $U(N)$ gauge invariance is introduced. It is shown that the continuous limit of these DTQWs, when it exists, coincides with the dynamics of a Dirac…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Pablo Arnault , Giuseppe Di Molfetta , Marc Brachet , Fabrice Debbasch

The time-evolution operator corresponding to the fractional-time Schr\"odinger equation is nonunitary because it fails to preserve the norm of the vector state in the course of its evolution. However, in the context of the time-dependent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Danilo Cius

We present an investigation of many-particle quantum walks in systems of non-interacting distinguishable particles. Along with a redistribution of the many-particle density profile we show that the collective evolution of the many-particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-19 C. M. Chandrashekar , Th. Busch

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, 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

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

We report the experimental detection of bulk topological invariants in nonunitary discrete-time quantum walks with single photons. The nonunitarity of the quantum dynamics is enforced by periodically performing partial measurements on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-02 Xiang Zhan , Lei Xiao , Zhihao Bian , Kunkun Wang , Xingze Qiu , Barry C. Sanders , Wei Yi , Peng Xue

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 effect of unitary noise on the discrete one-dimensional quantum walk is studied using computer simulations. For the noiseless quantum walk, starting at the origin (n=0) at time t=0, the position distribution Pt(n) at time t is very…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniel Shapira , Ofer Biham , A. J. Bracken , Michelle Hackett
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