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Quantum walk (QW), which is considered as the quantum counterpart of the classical random walk (CRW), is actually the quantum extension of CRW from the single-coin interpretation. The sequential unitary evolution engenders correlation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Jin-Fu Chen , Yu-Han Ma , Chang-Pu Sun

Rules for quantizing the walker+coin parts of a classical random walk are provided by treating them as interacting quantum systems. A quantum optical random walk (QORW), is introduced by means of a new rule that treats quantum or classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Demosthenes Ellinas , Ioannis Smyrnakis

Random walk (RW)-based algorithms have long been popular in distributed systems due to low overheads and scalability, with recent growing applications in decentralized learning. However, their reliance on local interactions makes them…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-16 Xingran Chen , Parimal Parag , Rohit Bhagat , Zonghong Liu , Salim El Rouayheb

The self-avoiding random walk (SARW) is a stochastic process whose state variable avoids returning to previously visited states. This non-Markovian feature has turned SARWs a powerful tool for modelling a plethora of relevant aspects in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-25 Gaia Colombani , Giulia Bertagnolli , Oriol Artime

In this paper, we consider a spectral analysis of the Correlated Random Walk (CRW) on the path. We apply an analytical method for the Quantum Walk to CRW. For the isospectral coin cases, we obtain all of the eigenvalues and the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Yusuke Ide , Akihiro Narimatsu

Neuronal avalanches are a novel mode of activity in neuronal networks, experimentally found in vitro and in vivo, and exhibit a robust critical behaviour: These avalanches are characterized by a power law distribution for the size and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2012-04-02 Lucilla de Arcangelis , Hans J. Herrmann

We prove that a quantum walk can detect the presence of a marked element in a graph in $O(\sqrt{WR})$ steps for any initial probability distribution on vertices. Here, $W$ is the total weight of the graph, and $R$ is the effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-14 Aleksandrs Belovs

We present the first rigorous quantitative analysis of once-reinforced random walks (ORRW) on general graphs, based on a novel change of measure formula.~This enables us to prove large deviations estimates for the range of the walk to have…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Andrea Collevecchio , Pierre Tarrès

We show the critical density for activated random walks on Euclidean lattices is at most one.

Probability · Mathematics 2008-11-19 Eric Shellef

In this issue we demonstrate the very inspiring role of the continuous-time random walk (CTRW) formalism and its numerous modifications thanks to their flexibility and various applications as well its promising perspectives in different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-05 Ryszard Kutner , Jaume Masoliver

We consider a multi-particle generalization of linear edge-reinforced random walk (ERRW). We observe that in absence of exchangeability, new techniques are needed in order to study the multi-particle model. We describe an unusual coupling…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yevgeniy Kovchegov

We show that the entanglement between the internal (spin) and external (position) degrees of freedom of a qubit in a random (dynamically disordered) one-dimensional discrete time quantum random walk (QRW) achieves its maximal possible value…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-04 Rafael Vieira , Edgard P. M. Amorim , Gustavo Rigolin

For a continuous-time catalytic branching random walk (CBRW) on Z, with an arbitrary finite number of catalysts, we study the asymptotic behavior of position of the rightmost particle when time tends to infinity. The mild requirements…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Ekaterina Vl. Bulinskaya

Discrete-time quantum walks (DTQWs) in random artificial electric and gravitational fields are studied analytically and numerically. The analytical computations are carried by a new method which allows a direct exact analytical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-25 G. Di Molfetta , F. Debbasch

Motivated by various recent experimental findings, we propose a dynamical model of intermittently self-propelled particles: active particles that recurrently switch between two modes of motion, namely an active run-state and a turn state,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-30 Agniva Datta , Carsten Beta , Robert Großmann

Self-interacting random walks (SIRWs) show long-range memory effects that result from the interaction of the random walker at time $t$ with the territory already visited at earlier times $t'<t$. This class of non-Markovian random walks has…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-25 Julien Brémont , Olivier Bénichou , Raphaël Voituriez

Empirical networks possess considerable heterogeneity of node connections, resulting in a small portion of nodes playing crucial roles in network structure and function. Yet, how to characterize nodes' influence and identify vital nodes is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Yujie Zeng , Yiming Huang , Xiao-Long Ren , Linyuan Lü

We study a system of random walks, known as the frog model, starting from a profile of independent Poisson($\lambda$) particles per site, with one additional active particle planted at some vertex $\mathbf{o}$ of a finite connected simple…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Itai Benjamini , Luiz Renato Fontes , Jonathan Hermon , Fabio Prates Machado

We give a complete and unified description -- under some stability assumptions -- of the functional scaling limits associated with some persistent random walks for which the recurrent or transient type is studied in [1]. As a result, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-12-02 Peggy Cénac , Arnaud Le Ny , Basile De Loynes , Yoann Offret

A functional approach for the study of the random walks in random sceneries (RWRS) is proposed. Under fairly general assumptions on the random walk and on the random scenery, functional limit theorems are proved. The method allows to study…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-03-06 Clément Dombry , Nadine Guillotin-Plantard