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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

In a recent work by Novo et al. (Sci. Rep. 5, 13304, 2015), the invariant subspace method was applied to the study of continuous-time quantum walk (CTQW). The method helps to reduce a graph into a simpler version that allows more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-22 Chen-Fu Chiang , Chang-Yu Hsieh

Continuous-time quantum walks are natural tools for spatial search, where one searches for a marked vertex in a graph. Sometimes, the structure of the graph causes the walker to get trapped, such that the probability of finding the marked…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Thomas G. Wong , Pascal Philipp

Spatial search is the problem of finding a marked vertex in a graph. A continuous-time quantum walk in the single-excitation subspace of an $n$ spin system solves the problem of spatial search by finding the marked vertex in $O(\sqrt{n})$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Dylan Lewis , Leonardo Banchi , Sougato Bose

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

In the typical spatial search problems solved by continuous-time quantum walk, changing the location of the marked vertices does not alter the search problem. In this paper, we consider search when this is no longer true. In particular, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-11 Thomas G. Wong

For quantum search via the continuous-time quantum walk, the evolution of the whole system is usually limited in a small subspace. In this paper, we discuss how the symmetries of the graphs are related to the existence of such an invariant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Yunkai Wang , Shengjun Wu

Quantum computing promises to improve the information processing power to levels unreachable by classical computation. Quantum walks are heading the development of quantum algorithms for searching information on graphs more efficiently than…

Quantum walks have been useful for designing quantum algorithms that outperform their classical versions for a variety of search problems. Most of the papers, however, consider a search space containing a single marked element only. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-12 Nikolajs Nahimovs , Raqueline A. M. Santos

The quantum walk is a powerful tool to develop quantum algorithms, which usually are based on searching for a vertex in a graph with multiple marked vertices, Ambainis's quantum algorithm for solving the element distinctness problem being…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 G. A. Bezerra , P. H. G. Lugão , R. Portugal

The graph isomorphism problem asks whether two graphs are identical up to vertex relabeling. While the exact problem admits quasi-polynomial-time classical algorithms, many applications in molecular comparison, noisy network analysis, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Prateek P. Kulkarni

The Scattering Quantum Random Walk scheme has found success as a basis for search algorithms on highly symmetric graph structures. In this paper we examine its effectiveness at locating a specially marked vertex on square grid graphs,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Daniel Koch

Quantum walks provide a powerful framework for achieving algorithmic speedup in quantum computing. This paper presents a quantum search algorithm for 2-tessellable graphs, a generalization of bipartite graphs, achieving a quadratic speedup…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-18 Gustavo Alves Bezerra , Andris Ambainis , Renato Portugal

Previously it was shown that (almost) perfect state transfer can be achieved on the complete bipartite graph by a discrete-time coined quantum walk based algorithm when both the sender and receiver vertices are in the same partition of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-09 R. A. M. Santos

We address quantum spatial search on graphs and its implementation by continuous-time quantum walks in the presence of dynamical noise. In particular, we focus on search on the complete graph and on the star graph of order $N$, proving that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-29 Marco Cattaneo , Matteo A. C. Rossi , Matteo G. A. Paris , Sabrina Maniscalco

We study spatial search with continuous-time quantum walks on real-world complex networks. We use smaller replicas of the Internet network obtained with a recent geometric renormalization method introduced by Garc\'ia-P\'erez et al., Nat.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-19 Joonas Malmi , Matteo A. C. Rossi , Guillermo García-Pérez , Sabrina Maniscalco

The task of finding an element in an unstructured database is known as spatial search and can be expressed as a quantum walk evolution on a graph. In this article, we modify the usual search problem by adding an extra trapping vertex to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Ugo Nzongani , Andrea Simonetto , Giuseppe Di Molfetta

Search and state transfer between hubs, i.e. fully connected vertices, on otherwise arbitrary connected graph is investigated. Motivated by a recent result of Razzoli et al. (J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 55, 265303 (2022)) on universality of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Stanislav Skoupy , Martin Stefanak

We present a theoretical framework for the analysis of amplitude transfer in Quantum Variational Algorithms (QVAs) for combinatorial optimisation with mixing unitaries defined by vertex-transitive graphs, based on their continuous-time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-24 Edric Matwiejew , Jingbo B. Wang

This work describes a new algorithm for creating a superposition over the edge set of a graph, encoding a quantum sample of the random walk stationary distribution. The algorithm requires a number of quantum walk steps scaling as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-26 Simon Apers