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We examine the physical implementation of a discrete time quantum walk with a four-dimensional coin. Our quantum walker is a photon moving repeatedly through a time delay loop, with time being our position space. The quantum coin is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-02 Craig S Hamilton , Aurel Gabris , Igor Jex , Stephen M Barnett

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

Quantum state preparation in high-dimensional systems is an essential requirement for many quantum-technology applications. The engineering of an arbitrary quantum state is, however, typically strongly dependent on the experimental platform…

This paper presents a novel quantum walk approach to simulating parton showers on a quantum computer. We demonstrate that the quantum walk paradigm offers a natural and more efficient approach to simulating parton showers on quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-07 Simon Williams , Sarah Malik , Michael Spannowsky , Khadeejah Bepari

From the unitary operator used for implementing two-state discrete-time quantum walk on one-, two- and three- dimensional lattice we obtain a two-component Dirac-like Hamiltonian. In particular, using different pairs of Pauli basis as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-04 C. M. Chandrashekar

In this paper, we propose a circuit design for implementing quantum walks on complex networks. Quantum walks are powerful tools for various graph-based applications such as spatial search, community detection, and node classification.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Rei Sato , Kazuhiro Saito

A discrete time quantum walk is known to be the single-particle sector of a quantum cellular automaton. For a long time, these models have interested the community for their nice properties such as locality or translation invariance. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Mathieu Roget , Giuseppe Di Molfetta

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

Very much as its classical counterpart, quantum cellular automata are expected to be a great tool for simulating complex quantum systems. Here we introduce a partitioned model of quantum cellular automata and show how it can simulate, with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-07 Pedro C. S. Costa , Renato Portugal , Fernando de Melo

The quantum walk was originally proposed as a quantum mechanical analogue of the classical random walk, and has since become a powerful tool in quantum information science. In this paper, we show that discrete time quantum walks provide a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-30 Takuya Kitagawa , Mark S. Rudner , Erez Berg , Eugene Demler

Quantum evolution is crucial for the understanding of complex quantum systems. However, current implementations of time evolution on quantum photonic platforms are limited by both low photon generation efficiency and high propagation loss,…

In this paper, a study on discrete-time coined quantum walks on the line is presented. Clear mathematical foundations are still lacking for this quantum walk model. As a step towards this objective, the following question is being…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-01 Marcos Villagra , Masaki Nakanishi , Shigeru Yamashita , Yasuhiko Nakashima

This dissertation presents investigations on dynamics of discrete-time quantum walk and some of its applications. Quantum walks has been exploited as an useful tool for quantum algorithms in quantum computing. Beyond quantum computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-25 C. M. Chandrashekar

Recently, a generalization of the standard optical multiport was proposed [Phys. Rev. A 93, 043845 (2016)]. These directionally unbiased multiports allow photons to reverse direction and exit backwards from the input port, providing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 David S. Simon , Casey A. Fitzpatrick , Shuto Osawa , Alexander V. Sergienko

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

Quantum walks provide simple models of various fundamental processes. It is pivotal to know when the dynamics underlying a walk lead to quantum advantages just by examining its statistics. A walk with many indistinguishable particles and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-03 Magdalena Stobińska , Peter P. Rohde , Paweł Kurzyński

Quantum walks are a well-established model for the study of coherent transport phenomena and provide a universal platform in quantum information theory. Dynamically influencing the walker's evolution gives a high degree of flexibility for…

Quantum walks provide a framework for understanding and designing quantum algorithms that is both intuitive and universal. To leverage the computational power of these walks, it is important to be able to programmably modify the graph a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Aaron W. Young , William J. Eckner , Nathan Schine , Andrew M. Childs , Adam M. Kaufman

Quantum walk is a useful model to simulate complex quantum systems and to build quantum algorithms; in particular, to develop spatial search algorithms on graphs, which aim to find a marked vertex as quickly as possible. Quantum walks are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Renato Portugal , Jalil Khatibi Moqadam

Quantum walks are versatile simulators of topological phases and phase transitions as observed in condensed matter physics. Here, we utilize a step dependent coin in quantum walks and investigate what topological phases we can simulate with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-16 S. Panahiyan , S. Fritzsche