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Random walks simulate the randomness of objects, and are key instruments in various fields such as computer science, biology and physics. The counter part of classical random walks in quantum mechanics are the quantum walks. Quantum walk…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Annamaria Ficara , Giacomo Fiumara , Pasquale De Meo , Salvatore Catanese

Random walks find applications in many areas of science and are the heart of essential network analytic tools. When defined on temporal networks, even basic random walk models may exhibit a rich spectrum of behaviours, due to the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-11-11 Julien Petit , Renaud Lambiotte , Timoteo Carletti

Simple random walks are a basic staple of the foundation of probability theory and form the building block of many useful and complex stochastic processes. In this paper we study a natural generalization of the random walk to a process in…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-11 Bala Rajaratnam , Narut Sereewattanawoot , Doug Sparks , Meng-Hsuan Wu

Quantum walks are quantum counterparts of Markov chains. In this article, we give a brief overview of quantum walks, with emphasis on their algorithmic applications.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-05-12 Andris Ambainis

Motivated by applications in telecommunications, computer scienceand physics, we consider a discrete-time Markov process withrestart. At each step the process eitherwith a positive probability restarts from a given distribution, orwith the…

Performance · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Alexey Piunovskiy , Yi Zhang

The continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs) are a fundamental tool in the development of quantum algorithms. Recently, it was shown that discretizations of p-adic Schr\"odinger equations give rise to continuous-time quantum Markov chains…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 W. A. Zúñiga-Galindo , L. F. Chacón-Cortés

A semi-Markov process method for obtaining general counting statistics for open quantum systems is extended to the scenario of resetting. The simultaneous presence of random resets and wave function collapses means that the quantum jump…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-15 Fei Liu

Hitting times for discrete quantum walks on graphs give an average time before the walk reaches an ending condition. To be analogous to the hitting time for a classical walk, the quantum hitting time must involve repeated measurements as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hari Krovi , Todd A. Brun

Here, a new two-dimensional process, discrete in time and space, that yields the results of both a random walk and a quantum random walk, is introduced. This model describes the population distribution of four coin states |1>,-|1>, |0> -|0>…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Arie Bar-Haim

In this work we study the relationship between quantum random walks on graphs and Krylov/spread complexity. We show that the latter's definition naturally emerges through a canonical method of reducing a graph to a chain, on which we can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-24 Dimitrios Patramanis , Watse Sybesma

The development of quantum algorithms based on quantum versions of random walks is placed in the context of the emerging field of quantum computing. Constructing a suitable quantum version of a random walk is not trivial: pure quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Viv Kendon

We consider an elementary model for self-organised criticality, the activated random walk on the complete graph. We introduce a discrete time Markov chain as follows. At each time step, we add an active particle at a random vertex and let…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Antal A. Járai , Christian Mönch , Lorenzo Taggi

Quantum computers provide an opportunity to efficiently sample from probability distributions that include non-trivial interference effects between amplitudes. Using a simple process wherein all possible state histories can be specified by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-22 Davide Provasoli , Benjamin Nachman , Wibe A. de Jong , Christian W Bauer

Classical random walk formalism shows a significant role across a wide range of applications. As its quantum counterpart, the quantum walk is proposed as an important theoretical model for quantum computing. By exploiting the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Xiaogang Qiang , Shixin Ma , Haijing Song

A new model that maps a quantum random walk described by a Hadamard operator to a particular case of a random walk is presented. The model is represented by a Markov chain with a stochastic matrix, i.e., all the transition rates are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Arie Bar-Haim

The rotor walk is a derandomized version of the random walk on a graph. On successive visits to any given vertex, the walker is routed to each of the neighboring vertices in some fixed cyclic order, rather than to a random sequence of…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-04-08 Alexander E. Holroyd , James Propp

We introduce quantized bipartite walks, compute their spectra, generalize the algorithms of Grover \cite{g} and Ambainis \cite{amb03} and interpret them as quantum walks with memory. We compare the performance of walk based classical and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mario Szegedy

Randomized algorithms for deciding satisfiability were shown to be effective in solving problems with thousands of variables. However, these algorithms are not complete. That is, they provide no guarantee that a satisfying assignment, if…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Deborah East , Miroslaw Truszczynski

Quantum walks have emerged as an interesting alternative to the usual circuit model for quantum computing. While still universal for quantum computing, the quantum walk model has very different physical requirements, which lends itself more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Peter P. Rohde , Andreas Schreiber , Martin Stefanak , Igor Jex , Christine Silberhorn

Recently, several groups have investigated quantum analogues of random walk algorithms, both on a line and on a circle. It has been found that the quantum versions have markedly different features to the classical versions. Namely, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. C. Travaglione , G. J. Milburn