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Quantum walk is a potent technique for building quantum algorithms. This paper examines the quantum walk search algorithm on complete multipartite graphs with multiple marked vertices, which has not been explored before. Two specific cases…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Ningxiang Chen , Meng Li , Xiaoming Sun

We analyze generalizations of quantum algorithms based on the short path framework first proposed by Hastings~[\textit{Quantum} 2, 78 (2018)], which has been extended and shown by Dalzell~et~al.~[STOC~'23] to achieve super-Grover speedups…

The aim of this work is to develop a framework for realising quantum network algorithms with the use of prior knowledge about the structure of the network. We seek to obtain computational methods that allows us to locally determine network…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-30 Przemysław Sadowski

This article presents a novel and succinct algorithmic framework via alternating quantum walks, unifying quantum spatial search, state transfer and uniform sampling on a large class of graphs. Using the framework, we can achieve exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Qingwen Wang , Ying Jiang , Lvzhou Li

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

Chakraborty and Leonardo have shown that a spatial search by quantum walk is optimal for almost all graphs. However, we observed that on some graphs, certain states cannot be searched optimally. We present a method for constructing an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-10 Xi Li , Hanwu Chen , Yue Ruan , Mengke Xu , Jianing Tang , Zhihao Liu

We consider the quantum search problem with a continuous time quantum walk for networks of finite spectral dimension d_{s} of the network Laplacian. For general networks of fractal (integer or non-integer) dimension d_{f}, for which in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Shanshan Li , Stefan Boettcher

We propose a new method for designing quantum search algorithms for finding a "marked" element in the state space of a classical Markov chain. The algorithm is based on a quantum walk \'a la Szegedy (2004) that is defined in terms of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-22 Frédéric Magniez , Ashwin Nayak , Jérémie Roland , Miklos Santha

Kronecker graphs, obtained by repeatedly performing the Kronecker product of the adjacency matrix of an "initiator" graph with itself, have risen in popularity in network science due to their ability to generate complex networks with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Thomas G. Wong , Konstantin Wünscher , Joshua Lockhart , Simone Severini

Quantum walks provide a natural framework to approach graph problems with quantum computers, exhibiting speedups over their classical counterparts for tasks such as the search for marked nodes or the prediction of missing links.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Duarte Magano , João Moutinho , Bruno Coutinho

We study scattering quantum walks on highly symmetric graphs and use the walks to solve search problems on these graphs. The particle making the walk resides on the edges of the graph, and at each time step scatters at the vertices. All of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-27 Daniel Reitzner , Mark Hillery , Edgar Feldman , Vladimir Buzek

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

A quantum walk on a lattice is a paradigm of a quantum search in a database. The database qubit strings are the lattice sites, qubit rotations are tunneling events, and the target site is tagged by an energy shift. For quantum walks on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Emma C. King , Moritz Linnebacher , Peter P. Orth , Matteo Rizzi , Giovanna Morigi

In the emerging domain of quantum algorithms, the Grover's quantum search is certainly one of the most significant. It is relatively simple, performs a useful task and more importantly, does it in an optimal way. However, due to the success…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-17 Hugo Pillin , Gilles Burel , Paul Baird , El-Houssaïn Baghious , Roland Gautier

We introduce a simple diagrammatic approach for estimating how a randomly walking quantum particle searches on a graph in continuous-time, which involves sketching small weighted graphs with self-loops and considering degenerate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Thomas G. Wong

Spatial search occurs in a connected graph if a continuous-time quantum walk on the adjacency matrix of the graph, suitably scaled, plus a rank-one perturbation induced by any vertex will unitarily map the principal eigenvector of the graph…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-05 Ada Chan , Chris Godsil , Christino Tamon , Weichen Xie

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

Quantum walk has emerged as an essential tool for searching marked vertices on various graphs. Recent advances in the discrete-time quantum walk search algorithm have enabled it to effectively handle multiple marked vertices, expanding its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Pulak Ranjan Giri , Rei Sato , Kazuhiro Saito

We investigate searching efficiency of different kinds of random walk on complex networks which rely on local information and one-step memory. For the studied navigation strategies we obtained theoretical and numerical values for the graph…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Miroslav Mirchev , Lasko Basnarkov , Igor Mishkovski

We investigate the generalisation of quantum search of unstructured and totally ordered sets to search of partially ordered sets (posets). Two models for poset search are considered. In both models, we show that quantum algorithms can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-18 Ashley Montanaro