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In this paper we isolate the combinatorial property responsible (at least in part) for the computational speedups recently observed in some quantum walk algorithms. We find that continuous-time quantum walks can exploit the covering space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tobias J. Osborne , Simone Severini

We solve an open problem by constructing quantum walks that not only detect but also find marked vertices in a graph. In the case when the marked set $M$ consists of a single vertex, the number of steps of the quantum walk is quadratically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-01 Hari Krovi , Frédéric Magniez , Maris Ozols , Jérémie Roland

We set the ground for a theory of quantum walks on graphs- the generalization of random walks on finite graphs to the quantum world. Such quantum walks do not converge to any stationary distribution, as they are unitary and reversible.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Dorit Aharonov , Andris Ambainis , Julia Kempe , Umesh Vazirani

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

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

We analyze a continuous-time quantum walk on a chimera graph, which is a graph of choice for designing quantum annealers, and we discover beautiful quantum-walk features such as localization that starkly distinguishes classical from quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 Shu Xu , Xiangxiang Sun , Jizhou Wu , Wei-Wei Zhang , Nigum Arshed , Barry C. Sanders

Universal quantum computation can be realised using both continuous-time and discrete-time quantum walks. We present a version based on single particle discrete-time quantum walk to realize multi-qubit computation tasks. The scalability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Prateek Chawla , Shivani Singh , Aman Agarwal , Sarvesh Srinivasan , C. M. Chandrashekar

The random walk formalism is used across a wide range of applications, from modelling share prices to predicting population genetics. Likewise quantum walks have shown much potential as a frame- work for developing new quantum algorithms.…

Quantum walks are the quantum-mechanical analog of random walks, in which a quantum `walker' evolves between initial and final states by traversing the edges of a graph, either in discrete steps from node to node or via continuous evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Michael S. Underwood , David L. Feder

Simulation and programming of current quantum computers as Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices represent a hot topic at the border of current physical and information sciences. The quantum walk process represents a basic…

A continuous-time quantum walk on a dynamic graph evolves by Schr\"odinger's equation with a sequence of Hamiltonians encoding the edges of the graph. This process is universal for quantum computing, but in general, the dynamic graph that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-20 Rebekah Herrman , Thomas G. Wong

Quantum walks are widely and successfully used to model diverse physical processes. This leads to computation of the models, to explore their properties. Quantum walks have also been shown to be universal for quantum computing. This is a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Viv Kendon

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

In this letter we introduce the concept of a driven quantum walk. This work is motivated by recent theoretical and experimental progress that combines quantum walks and parametric down- conversion, leading to fundamentally different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-29 Craig S. Hamilton , Regina Kruse , Linda Sansoni , Christine Silberhorn , Igor Jex

Quantum walks on graphs have shown prioritized benefits and applications in wide areas. In some scenarios, however, it may be more natural and accurate to mandate high-order relationships for hypergraphs, due to the density of information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 Ying Liu , Jiabin Yuan , Bojia Duan , Dan Li

It is demonstrated that in gate-based quantum computing architectures quantum walk is a natural mathematical description of quantum gates. It originates from field-matter interaction driving the system, but is not attached to specific qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-08 Dmitry Solenov

A quantum walk is a time-homogeneous quantum-mechanical process on a graph defined by analogy to classical random walk. The quantum walker is a particle that moves from a given vertex to adjacent vertices in quantum superposition. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-18 Andrew M. Childs , David Gosset , Zak Webb

We address the problem of the construction of quantum walks on Cayley graphs. Our main motivation is the relationship between quantum algorithms and quantum walks. In particular, we discuss the choice of the dimension of the local Hilbert…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-25 O. Lopez Acevedo , T. Gobron

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

We make and generalize the observation that summing of probability amplitudes of a discrete-time quantum walk over partitions of the walking graph consistent with the step operator results in a unitary evolution on the reduced graph which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-06 Václav Potoček