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Biconformal spaces contain the essential elements of quantum mechanics, making the independent imposition of quantization unnecessary. Based on three postulates characterizing motion and measurement in biconformal geometry, we derive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-11 Lara B. Anderson , James T. Wheeler

We consider the long-time behaviour of a branching random walk in random environment on the lattice $\Z^d$. The migration of particles proceeds according to simple random walk in continuous time, while the medium is given as a random…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-08-02 Onur Gün , Wolfgang König , Ozren Sekulović

We prove an analogue of the classical ballot theorem that holds for any random walk in the range of attraction of the normal distribution. Our result is best possible: we exhibit examples demonstrating that if any of our hypotheses are…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-02-28 L. Addario-Berry , B. A. Reed

We study the model of quantum walks on cycles enriched by the addition of 1-step memory. We provide a formula for the probability distribution and the time-averaged limiting probability distribution of the introduced quantum walk. Using the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-07 Michael Mc Gettrick , Jarosław Adam Miszczak

We consider a particle which is randomly accelerated by Gaussian white noise on the line 0<x<1, with absorbing boundaries at x=0,1. Denoting the initial position and velocity of the particle by x_0 and v_0 and solving a Fokker-Planck type…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. J. Bicout , T. W. Burkhardt

Random walks are a series of up, down, and level steps that enumerate distinct paths from $(0,0)$ to $(2n,0)$, where $n$ is the semi-length of the path. We used these paths to analyze Catalan, Schr\"{o}der, and Motzkin number sequences…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-08 Tonia Bell , Shakuan Frankson , Nikita Sachdeva , Myka Terry

We consider one-dimensional quantum walks in optical linear networks with synthetically introduced disorder and tunable system parameters allowing for the engineered realization of distinct topological phases. The option to directly monitor…

A fundamental principle of quantum theory, clearly manifested in the two-slit experiment, is that for any alternatives that cannot be distinguished by measurement physical predictions are obtained by summation of their amplitudes. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-17 C. Anastopoulos , N. Savvidou

We consider random walk on a finite group $G$ as follows. We can consider $G$ as a group of substitutions. Randomly (i.e. with probability $U(g)=|G|^{-1}$ ) we choose a substitution $g \in G$ and execute it twice in a row, i.e. execute a…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Olexandr Vyshnevetskiy , Alexander Bendikov

We analyze time-of-arrival probability distributions for relativistic particles in the context of quantum field theory (QFT). We show that QFT leads to a unique prediction, modulo post-selection that incorporates properties of the apparatus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Charis Anastopoulos , Maria-Electra Plakitsi

We consider Gessel walks in the plane starting at the origin $(0, 0)$ remaining in the first quadrant $i, j \geq 0$ and made of West, North-East, East and South-West steps. Let $F(m; n_1, n_2)$ denote the number of these walks with exact…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-03-03 Sun Ping

Quantum walks are considered to be quantum counterparts of random walks.They show us impressive probability distributions which are different from those of random walks.That fact has been precisely proved in terms of mathematics and some of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Takuya Machida

We define matrix groups $FG_n(P)$ for each natural number $n$ and finite set of primes $P$, such that every rational-valued upper triangular matrix group is a (possibly distorted) subgroup. Brofferio and Schapira [Brofferio2011poisson],…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-25 John J. Harrison

In this paper, we provide a representation theory for the Feynman operator calculus. This allows us to solve the general initial-value problem and construct the Dyson series. We show that the series is asymptotic, thus proving Dyson's…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. L. Gill , W. W Zachary

In this paper, we study (1,2) and (2,1) random walks in varying environments on the lattice of positive half line. We assume that the transition probabilities at site $n$ are asymptotically constants as $n\rightarrow\infty.$ For (1,2)…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Hua-Ming Wang , Lanlan Tang

We introduce and solve from first principles a continuous-time quantum walk with absorption generated by a Lindblad boundary sink of arbitrary strength. Tracing out the sink maps the problem onto a non-Hermitian tight-binding Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Francisco Riberi

The distribution of the first positive position reached by a random walker starting at the origin is central to the analysis of extremes and records in one-dimensional random walks. In this work, we present a detailed and self-contained…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-21 Claude Godrèche , Jean-Marc Luck

This paper presents in detail the originally developed Quadratic Point Estimate Method (QPEM), aimed at efficiently and accurately computing the first four output moments of probabilistic distributions, using 2n^2+1 sample (or sigma)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-21 Minhyeok Ko , Konstantinos G. Papakonstantinou

We survey and develop the most elementary model of electron motion introduced by R$.$Feynman. In this game, a checker moves on a checkerboard by simple rules, and we count the turns. Feynman checkers are also known as a one-dimensional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 M. Skopenkov , A. Ustinov

Photonics provide an efficient way to implement quantum walks, the quantum analogue of classical random walk that demonstrates rich physics with potential applications. However, most photonic quantum walks do not involve photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-17 Xinyuan Zheng , Edo Waks