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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

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

Quantum walks exhibit properties without classical analogues. One of those is the phenomenon of asymptotic trapping -- there can be non-zero probability of the quantum walker being localised in a finite part of the underlying graph…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Jan Mareš , Jaroslav Novotný , Martin Štefaňák , Igor Jex

Quantum algorithms have demonstrated provable speedups over classical counterparts, yet establishing a comprehensive theoretical framework to understand the quantum advantage remains a core challenge. In this work, we decode the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Si-Qi Zhou , Jin-Min Liang , Ziheng Ding , Zhihua Chen , Shao-Ming Fei , Zhihao Ma

Discrete-time quantum walks provide a natural framework for quantum transport on complex networks. On regular structures, coin-walker entanglement has been widely used to characterize quantum transport and to support quantum algorithmic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Pravy Prerana , Sascha Wald

To describe the flow of a miscible quantity on a network, we introduce the graph wave equation where the standard continuous Laplacian is replaced by the graph Laplacian. This is a natural description of an array of inductances and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-10-25 Jean-Guy Caputo , Arnaud Knippel , Elie Simo

Quantum walk has emerged as an essential tool for searching marked vertices on various graphs. Recent advances in the discrete-time quantum walk search algorithm have enabled it to effectively handle multiple marked vertices, expanding its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Pulak Ranjan Giri , Rei Sato , Kazuhiro Saito

In this work, we unify several quantum algorithmic frameworks for boolean functions that are based on the quantum adversary bound. First, we show that the $st$-connectivity framework subsumes the (adaptive/extended) learning graph…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Arjan Cornelissen

We show that a neural network, trained on the entanglement spectra of a nearest neighbor Heisenberg chain in a random transverse magnetic field, can be used to efficiently study the ergodic/many-body localized properties of a number of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-08-13 Cameron Beetar , Jeff Murugan , Dario Rosa

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…

We investigate the behavior of coherence in scattering quantum walk search on complete graph under the condition that the total number of vertices of the graph is greatly larger than the marked number of vertices we are searching, $N \gg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-19 Yun-Long Su , Si-Yuan Liu , Xiao-Hui Wang , Heng Fan , Wen-Li Yang

We consider a specific random graph which serves as a disordered medium for a particle performing biased random walk. Take a two-sided infinite horizontal ladder and pick a random spanning tree with a certain edge weight $c$ for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-19 Nina Gantert , Achim Klenke

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

One of the distinct features of quantum mechanics is that the probability amplitude can have both positive and negative signs, which has no classical counterpart as the classical probability must be positive. Consequently, one possible way…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-28 Vicky Choi

The concept of lackadaisical quantum walk -- quantum walk with self loops -- was first introduced for discrete-time quantum walk on one-dimensional line. Later it was successfully applied to improve the running time of the spacial search on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-03 Nikolajs Nahimovs

In this dissertation we demonstrate that the continuous-time quantum walk models remain powerful for nontrivial graph structures. We consider two aspects of this problem. First, it is known that the standard Continuous-Time Quantum Walk…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-28 Adam Glos

This paper investigates continuous-time quantum walks on directed bipartite graphs based on a graph's adjacency matrix. We prove that on bipartite graphs, probability transport between the two node partitions can be completely suppressed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Beat Tödtli , Monika Laner , Jouri Semenov , Beatrice Paoli , Marcel Blattner , Jérôme Kunegis

The quantum SearchRank algorithm is a promising tool for a future quantum search engine based on PageRank quantization. However, this algorithm loses its functionality when the $N/M$ ratio between the network size $N$ and the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Sergio A. Ortega , Miguel A. Martin-Delgado

In this paper, we propose a general framework for the trapping problem on a weighted network with a perfect trap fixed at an arbitrary node. By utilizing the spectral graph theory, we provide an exact formula for mean first-passage time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-04 Yuan Lin , Zhongzhi Zhang

Grover's quantum search algorithm can be formulated as a quantum particle randomly walking on the (highly symmetric) complete graph, with one vertex marked by a nonzero potential. From an initial equal superposition, the state evolves in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-30 Jonatan Janmark , David A. Meyer , Thomas G. Wong