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This work describes a new algorithm for creating a superposition over the edge set of a graph, encoding a quantum sample of the random walk stationary distribution. The algorithm requires a number of quantum walk steps scaling as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-26 Simon Apers

The standard formulation of quantum theory assumes a predefined notion of time. This is a major obstacle in the search for a quantum theory of gravity, where the causal structure of space-time is expected to be dynamical and fundamentally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-29 Ognyan Oreshkov , Nicolas J. Cerf

We introduce the concept of a quantum walk with two particles and study it for the case of a discrete time walk on a line. A quantum walk with more than one particle may contain entanglement, thus offering a resource unavailable in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Omar , N. Paunkovic , L. Sheridan , S. Bose

In this "map" we are going to present the concept of indefinite causal order and make a quick journey through its different flavours. We will start with a broad conceptual motivation for studying indefinite causal order, based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Jorge Escandón-Monardes

In this Chapter, we present some interesting properties of quantum walks on the line. We concentrate our attention in the emergence of invariance and provide some insights into the ultimate origin of the observed behavior. In the first part…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-02 Miquel Montero

The connection between coined and continuous-time quantum walk models has been addressed in a number of papers. In most of those studies, the continuous-time model is derived from coined quantum walks by employing dimensional reduction and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-14 Pascal Philipp , Renato Portugal

In standard quantum theory, the causal relations between operations are fixed. One can relax this notion by allowing for dynamical arrangements, where operations may influence the causal relations of future operations, as certified by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Veronika Baumann , Ämin Baumeler , Eleftherios-Ermis Tselentis

We are concerned with random walks on $\mathbb{Z}^d$, $d\geq 3$, in an i.i.d. random environment with transition probabilities $\epsilon$-close to those of simple random walk. We assume that the environment is balanced in one fixed…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-12-28 Erich Baur

We study the distributions of the continuous-time quantum walk on a one-dimensional lattice. In particular we will consider walks on unbounded lattices, walks with one and two boundaries and Dirichlet boundary conditions, and walks with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arvid J. Bessen

The atom-optics kicked rotor can be used to prepare specific momentum distributions on a discrete basis set. We implement a continuous-time quantum walk and a quantum search protocol in this momentum basis. In particular we propose ways to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-24 Michele Delvecchio , Caspar Groiseau , Francesco Petiziol , Gil S Summy , Sandro Wimberger

We show that the fidelity of the standard quantum teleportation protocol, which utilizes an impure resource state, applied successively, can be significantly improved, when used in conjunction with a quantum switch. In particular, we find…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Chiranjib Mukhopadhyay , Arun Kumar Pati

We develop a new formalism for constructing probabilities associated to the causal ordering of events in quantum theory, where by an event we mean the emergence of a measurement record on a detector. We start with constructing probabilities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Charis Anastopoulos , Maria_Electra Plakitsi

Coherent evolution governs the behaviour of all quantum systems, but in nature it is often subjected to influence of a classical environment. For analysing quantum transport phenomena quantum walks emerge as suitable model systems. In…

Superslow diffusion, i.e., the long-time diffusion of particles whose mean-square displacement (variance) grows slower than any power of time, is studied in the framework of the decoupled continuous-time random walk model. We show that this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-24 S. I. Denisov , H. Kantz

An astonishing feature of higher-order quantum theory is that it can accommodate indefinite causal order. In the simplest bipartite setting, there exist signaling correlations for which it is fundamentally impossible to ascribe a definite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Jessica Bavaresco , Ämin Baumeler , Yelena Guryanova , Costantino Budroni

In classical physics, events follow a definite causal order: the past influences the future, but not the reverse. Quantum theory, however, permits superpositions of causal orders -- so-called indefinite causal orders -- which can provide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Carla M. D. Richter , Michael Antesberger , Huan Cao , Philip Walther , Lee A. Rozema

The quantum walk (QW) is the term given to a family of algorithms governing the evolution of a discrete quantum system and as such has a founding role in the study of quantum computation. We contribute to the investigation of QW phenomena…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-02 Hao Luo , Peng Xue

We discuss a particular kind of quantum walk on a general graph. We affix two semi-infinite lines to a general finite graph, which we call tails. On the tails, the particle making the walk simply advances one unit at each time step, so that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-15 Edgar Feldman , Mark Hillery

In the traditional random-conformational-search model, various hypotheses with a series of meta-stable intermediate states were often proposed to resolve the Levinthal paradox. Here we introduce a quantum strategy to formulate protein…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-08-02 Li-Hua Lu , You-Quan Li

This work focuses on the study of quantum stochastic walks, which are a generalization of coherent, i. e. unitary quantum walks. Our main goal is to present a measure of a coherence of the walk. To this end, we utilize the asymptotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 Krzysztof Domino , Adam Glos , Mateusz Ostaszewski , Łukasz Pawela , Przemysław Sadowski