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We introduce an object called a \emph{subspace graph} that formalizes the technique of multidimensional quantum walks. Composing subspace graphs allows one to seamlessly combine quantum and classical reasoning, keeping a classical structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-09 Stacey Jeffery , Galina Pass

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

Node embeddings act as the information interface for graph neural networks, yet their empirical impact is often reported under mismatched backbones, splits, and training budgets. This paper provides a controlled benchmark of embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Nouhaila Innan , Antonello Rosato , Alberto Marchisio , Muhammad Shafique

This tutorial article showcases the many varieties and uses of quantum walks. Discrete time quantum walks are introduced as counterparts of classical random walks. The emphasis is on the connections and differences between the two types of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-16 Daniel Reitzner , Daniel Nagaj , Vladimir Buzek

We introduce a continuous-time quantum walk on an ultrametric space corresponding to the set of p-adic integers and compute its time-averaged probability distribution. It is shown that localization occurs for any location of the ultrametric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-24 Norio Konno

For a continuous-time quantum walk on a line the variance of the position observable grows quadratically in time, whereas, for its classical counterpart on the same graph, it exhibits a linear, diffusive, behaviour. A quantum walk, thus,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-01-30 Diego de Falco , Dario Tamascelli

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

The problem of finding a marked node in a graph can be solved by the spatial search algorithm based on continuous-time quantum walks (CTQW). However, this algorithm is known to run in optimal time only for a handful of graphs. In this work,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Shantanav Chakraborty , Leonardo Novo , Andris Ambainis , Yasser Omar

The study of quantum walk processes has been widely divided into two standard variants, the discrete-time quantum walk (DTQW) and the continuous-time quantum walk (CTQW). The connection between the two variants has been established by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-08 C. M. Chandrashekar

Random walk based node embedding algorithms learn vector representations of nodes by optimizing an objective function of node embedding vectors and skip-bigram statistics computed from random walks on the network. They have been applied to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-13 Christy Lin , Daniel Sussman , Prakash Ishwar

The quantum walk is the quantum analogue of the well-known random walk, which forms the basis for models and applications in many realms of science. Its properties are markedly different from the classical counterpart and might lead to…

We propose a new embedding method, named Quantile-Quantile Embedding (QQE), for distribution transformation and manifold embedding with the ability to choose the embedding distribution. QQE, which uses the concept of quantile-quantile plot…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-12 Benyamin Ghojogh , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley

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

The staggered quantum walk model allows to establish an unprecedented connection between discrete-time quantum walks and graph theory. We call attention to the fact that a large subclass of the coined model is included in Szegedy's model,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 Renato Portugal

Nodes performing different functions in a network have different roles, and these roles can be gleaned from the structure of the network. Learning latent representations for the roles of nodes helps to understand the network and to transfer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Xuewei Ma , Geng Qin , Zhiyang Qiu , Mingxin Zheng , Zhe Wang

In this paper, we analyze the dynamics of quantum walks on a graph structure resulting from the integration of a main connected graph $G$ and a secondary connected graph $G'$. This composite graph is formed by a disjoint union of $G$ and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-14 Taisuke Hosaka , Renato Portugal , Etsuo Segawa

In this note, we discuss a general definition of quantum random walks on graphs and illustrate with a simple graph the possibility of very different behavior between a classical random walk and its quantum analogue. In this graph,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew M. Childs , Edward Farhi , Sam Gutmann

Node embedding methods find latent lower-dimensional representations which are used as features in machine learning models. In the last few years, these methods have become extremely popular as a replacement for manual feature engineering.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Christoph Martin , Meike Riebeling

Quantum walk followed by some amplitude amplification technique has been successfully used to search for marked vertices on various graphs. Lackadaisical quantum walk can search for target vertices on graphs without the help of any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 Pulak Ranjan Giri

Quantum random walks have been shown to be powerful quantum algorithms for certain tasks on graphs like database searching, quantum simulations etc. In this work we focus on its applications for the graph isomorphism problem. In particular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Sachin Kasture , Shaheen Acheche , Loic Henriet , Louis-Paul Henry