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We present various results on the scheme introduced , which is a quantum spatial-search algorithm on a two-dimensional (2D) square spatial grid, realized with a 2D Dirac discrete-time quantum walk (DQW) coupled to a Coulomb electric field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Thibault Fredon , Julien Zylberman , Pablo Arnault , Fabrice Debbasch

We consider the problem of search of an unstructured list for a marked element, when one is given advice as to where this element might be located, in the form of a probability distribution. The goal is to minimise the expected number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-02 Ashley Montanaro

Quantum algorithms have demonstrated provable speedups over classical counterparts, yet establishing a comprehensive theoretical framework to understand the quantum advantage remains a core challenge. In this work, we decode the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Si-Qi Zhou , Jin-Min Liang , Ziheng Ding , Zhihua Chen , Shao-Ming Fei , Zhihao Ma

Random walks describe diffusion processes, where movement at every time step is restricted to only the neighbouring locations. We construct a quantum random walk algorithm, based on discretisation of the Dirac evolution operator inspired by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Apoorva Patel , Md. Aminoor Rahaman

To investigate the performance of quantum information tasks on networks whose topology changes in time, we study the spatial search algorithm by continuous time quantum walk to find a marked node on a random temporal network. We consider a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-30 Shantanav Chakraborty , Leonardo Novo , Serena Di Giorgio , Yasser Omar

Discrete-time quantum walk (DTQW) represents a convenient mathematical framework for describing the motion of a particle on a discrete set of positions when this motion is conditioned by the values of certain internal degrees of freedom,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Simone Cavazzoni , Paolo Bordone , Matteo G. A. Paris

A quantum algorithm for general combinatorial search that uses the underlying structure of the search space to increase the probability of finding a solution is presented. This algorithm shows how coherent quantum systems can be matched to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Tad Hogg

Spatial search by discrete-time quantum walk can find a marked node on any ergodic, reversible Markov chain $P$ quadratically faster than its classical counterpart, i.e.\ in a time that is in the square root of the hitting time of $P$.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Shantanav Chakraborty , Leonardo Novo , Jérémie Roland

The Grover search algorithm performs an unstructured search of a marked item in a database quadratically faster than classical algorithms and is shown to be optimal. Here, we show that if the search space is divided into two blocks with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Akankshya Dash , Biswaranjan Panda , Arun K Pati

The spatial search problem consists in minimizing the number of steps required to find a given site in a network, under the restriction that only oracle queries or translations to neighboring sites are allowed. In this paper, a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-18 G. Abal , R. Donangelo , F. L. Marquezino , R. Portugal

Searching for an unknown marked vertex on a given graph (also known as spatial search) is an extensively discussed topic in the area of quantum algorithms, with a plethora of results based on different quantum walk models and targeting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Guanzhong Li , Jingquan Luo , Shiguang Feng , Lvzhou Li

A discrete time quantum walk is known to be the single-particle sector of a quantum cellular automaton. Searching in this mathematical framework has interested the community since a long time. However, most results consider spatial search…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Mathieu Roget , Giuseppe Di Molfetta

Executing quantum circuits on currently available quantum computers requires compiling them to a representation that conforms to all restrictions imposed by the targeted architecture. Due to the limited connectivity of the devices' physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Lukas Burgholzer , Sarah Schneider , Robert Wille

Continuous-time quantum walks provide an alternative method for quantum search problems. Most of the earlier studies confirmed that quadratic speedup exists in some synthetic Hamiltonians, but whether there is quadratic speedup in real…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Fan Xing , Yan Wei , Zeyang Liao

There are at least three models of discrete-time quantum walks (QWs) on graphs currently under active development. In this work we focus on the equivalence of two of them, known as Szegedy's and staggered QWs. We give a formal definition of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-31 R. Portugal , R. A. M. Santos , T. D. Fernandes , D. N. Gonçalves

The main results on quantum walk search are scattered over different, incomparable frameworks, most notably the hitting time framework, originally by Szegedy, the electric network framework by Belovs, and the MNRS framework by Magniez,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Simon Apers , András Gilyén , Stacey Jeffery

Quantum search on the two-dimensional lattice with one marked vertex and cyclic boundary conditions is an important problem in the context of quantum algorithms with an interesting unfolding. It avails to test the ability of quantum walk…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-03 Renato Portugal , Tharso D. Fernandes

Quantum walks (QW) are of crucial importance in the development of quantum information processing algorithms. Recently, several quantum algorithms have been proposed to implement network analysis, in particular to rank the centrality of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Tong Wu , J. A. Izaac , Zi-Xi Li , Kai Wang , Zhao-Zhong Chen , Shining Zhu , J. B. Wang , Xiao-Song Ma

A quantum walk algorithm can detect the presence of a marked vertex on a graph quadratically faster than the corresponding random walk algorithm (Szegedy, FOCS 2004). However, quantum algorithms that actually find a marked element…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 Andris Ambainis , András Gilyén , Stacey Jeffery , Martins Kokainis

We consider the problem of searching a d-dimensional lattice of N sites for a single marked location. We present a Hamiltonian that solves this problem in time of order sqrt(N) for d>2 and of order sqrt(N) log(N) in the critical dimension…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew M. Childs , Jeffrey Goldstone