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The coherent superposition of position states in a quantum walk (QW) can be precisely engineered towards the desired distributions to meet the need of quantum information applications. The coherent distribution can make full use of quantum…

Quantum Random Walks, which have drawn much attention over the past few decades for their distinctly non-classical behavior, is a promising subfield within Quantum Computing. Theoretical framework and applications for these walks have seen…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-25 Daniel Koch , Michael Samodurov , Andrew Projansky , Paul M. Alsing

High-dimensional quantum systems can offer extended possibilities and multiple advantages while developing advanced quantum technologies. In this paper, we propose a class of quantum-walk architecture networks that admit the efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-12 Hengji Li , Jian Li , Xiubo Chen

Quantum walks are versatile simulators of topological phases and phase transitions as observed in condensed matter physics. Here, we utilize a step dependent coin in quantum walks and investigate what topological phases we can simulate with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-16 S. Panahiyan , S. Fritzsche

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

Quantum and random walks have been shown to be equivalent in the following sense: a time-dependent random walk can be constructed such that its vertex distribution at all time instants is identical to the vertex distribution of any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Matheus G. Andrade , Franklin de Lima Marquezino , Daniel R. Figueiredo

Quantum walks, both discrete (coined) and continuous time, form the basis of several quantum algorithms and have been used to model processes such as transport in spin chains and quantum chemistry. The enhanced spreading and mixing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-10 Godfrey Leung , Paul Knott , Joe Bailey , Viv Kendon

The evolution of a walker in standard "Discrete-time Quantum Walk (DTQW)" is determined by coin and shift unitary operators. The conditional shift operator shifts the position of the walker to right or left by unit step size while the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-03 Rashid Ahmad , Safia Bibi , Uzma Sajjad

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

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

The study of quantum walks has been shown to have a wide range of applications in areas such as artificial intelligence, the study of biological processes, and quantum transport. The quantum stochastic walk, which allows for incoherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-20 Luke C. G. Govia , Bruno G. Taketani , Peter K. Schuhmacher , Frank K. Wilhelm

Quantum walks have been shown to have a wide range of applications, from artificial intelligence, to photosynthesis, and quantum transport. Quantum stochastic walks (QSWs) generalize this concept to additional non-unitary evolution. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Peter K. Schuhmacher , Luke C. G. Govia , Bruno G. Taketani , Frank K. Wilhelm

Accurate modeling of the temporal evolution of asset prices is crucial for understanding financial markets. We explore the potential of discrete-time quantum walks to model the evolution of asset prices. Return distributions obtained from a…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-12-05 Stijn De Backer , Luis E. C. Rocha , Jan Ryckebusch , Koen Schoors

We introduce a new tool for quantum algorithms called quantum fast-forwarding (QFF). The tool uses quantum walks as a means to quadratically fast-forward a reversible Markov chain. More specifically, with $P$ the Markov chain transition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-24 Simon Apers , Alain Sarlette

In this expository note, we discuss spatially inhomogeneous quantum walks in one dimension and describe a genre of mathematical methods that enables one to translate information about the time-independent eigenvalue equation for the unitary…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-04-25 Jake Fillman

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

Quantum versions of random walks on the line and the cycle show a quadratic improvement over classical random walks in their spreading rates and mixing times respectively. Non-unitary quantum walks can provide a useful optimisation of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-25 Viv Kendon , Olivier Maloyer

Quantum walks are powerful kernels in quantum computing protocols that possess strong capabilities in speeding up various simulation and optimisation tasks. One striking example is given by quantum walkers evolving on glued trees for their…

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) is an emerging cryptographic method designed for secure key sharing. Its security is theoretically guaranteed by fundamental principles of quantum mechanics, making it a leading candidate for future…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Chia-Tso Lai

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