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We study the effect of interactions on the bosonic two-particle quantum walk and its corresponding spatial correlations. The combined effect of interactions and Hanbury-Brown Twiss interference results in unique spatial correlations which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-03 Yoav Lahini , Mor Verbin , Sebastian D. Huber , Yaron Bromberg , Rami Pugatch , Yaron Silberberg

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

Quantum walks have emerged as an interesting approach to quantum information processing, exhibiting many unique properties compared to the analogous classical random walk. Here we introduce a model for a discrete-time quantum walk with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-08 Peter P. Rohde , Gavin K. Brennen , Alexei Gilchrist

This paper presents a simple model that mimics quantum mechanics (QM) results in terms of probability fields of free particles subject to self-interference, without using Schr\"{o}dinger equation or wavefunctions. Unlike the standard QM…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 Antonio Sciarretta

We present a conceptual approach to quantum tomography based on first expanding a quantum state across extra degrees of freedom and then exploiting the introduced sparsity to perform reconstruction. We formulate its application to photonic…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-19 James Titchener , Alexander Solntsev , Andrey Sukhorukov

We realize quasi-periodic dynamics of a quantum walker over 2.5 quasi-periods by realizing the walker as a single photon passing through a quantum-walk optical-interferometer network. We introduce fully controllable polarization-independent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-14 Peng Xue , Hao Qin , Bao Tang , Barry C. Sanders

The random walk of photons in a tight-binding lattice is known to exhibit diffusive motion similar to classical random walks under decoherence, clearly illustrating the quantum-to-classical transition. In this study, we reveal that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Stefano Longhi

Quantum random walks are shown to have non-intuitive dynamics, which makes them an attractive area of study for devising quantum algorithms for well-known classical problems as well as those arising in the field of quantum computing. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-11 K. Manouchehri , J. B. Wang

For quantum computation using photons, performing deterministic quantum gate operations is a challenge due to the probabilistic nature of the photon-photon interaction. Encoding qubits in multiple degrees-of-freedom of photons and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Kanad Sengupta , S. P. Dinesh , K. Muhammed Shafi , Soumya Asokan , C. M. Chandrashekar

Random walks behave very differently for classical and quantum particles. Here we unveil a ubiquitous distinctive behavior of random walks of a photon in a one-dimensional lattice in the presence of a finite number of traps, at which the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Stefano Longhi

Multi-photon quantum walks in integrated optics are an attractive controlled quantum system, that can mimic less readily accessible quantum systems and exhibit behavior that cannot in general be accurately replicated by classical light…

We present a review of photonic implementations of discrete-time quantum walks (DTQW) in the spatial and temporal domains, based on spatial- and time-multiplexing techniques, respectively. Additionally, we propose a detailed novel scheme…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Leonardo Neves , Graciana Puentes

Strong nonlinear interactions between photons enable logic operations for both classical and quantum-information technology. Unfortunately, nonlinear interactions are usually feeble and therefore all-optical logic gates tend to be…

We investigate continuous-time quantum walks of two fermionic atoms loaded in one-dimensional optical lattices with on-site interaction and subjected to a Zeeman field. The quantum walks are accompanied by spin-flipping processes. We…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-04-20 Li Wang , Na Liu , Shu Chen , Yunbo Zhang

There has been rapid development of systems that yield strong interactions between freely propagating photons in one dimension via controlled coupling to quantum emitters. This raises interesting possibilities such as quantum information…

We consider two independent quantum walks on separate lines augmented by partial or full swapping of coins after each step. For classical random walks, swapping or not swapping coins makes little difference to the random walk…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-08 Peng Xue , Barry C. Sanders

Photons do not interact directly with each other, but conditional control of one beam by another can be achieved with non-linear optical media at high field intensities. It is exceedingly difficult to reach such intensities at the single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 A. J. Bennett , J. P. Lee , D. J. P. Ellis , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie , A. J. Shields

High-energy physics simulations traditionally rely on classical Monte Carlo methods to model complex particle interactions, often incurring significant computational costs. In this paper, we introduce a novel quantum-enhanced simulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Euimin Lee , Sangmin Lee , Shiho Kim

We demonstrate a platform for implementing quantum walks that overcomes many of the barriers associated with photonic implementations. We use coupled fiber-optic cavities to implement time-bin encoded walks in an integrated system. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 J. Boutari , A. Feizpour , S. Barz , C. Di Franco , M. S. Kim , W. S. Kolthammer , I. A. Walmsley

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