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We investigate how the introduction of different types of disorder affects the generation of entanglement between the internal (spin) and external (position) degrees of freedom in one-dimensional quantum random walks (QRW). Disorder is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-11 Rafael Vieira , Edgard P. M. Amorim , Gustavo Rigolin

This work is motivated by the study of some two-dimensional random walks in random environment (RWRE) with transition probabilities independent of one coordinate of the walk. These are non-reversible models and can not be treated by…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-04-16 Nina Gantert , Michael Kochler , Francoise Pene

We analyze generalized space-time fractional motions on undirected networks and lattices. The continuous-time random walk (CTRW) approach of Montroll and Weiss is employed to subordinate a space fractional walk to a generalization of the…

We introduce an analytically treatable spin decoherence model for quantum walk on a line that yields the exact position probability distribution of an unbiased classical random walk at all-time scales. This spin decoherence model depicts a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Mahesh N. Jayakody , Asiri Nanayakkara

Quantum random walks are shown to have non-intuitive dynamics, which makes them an attractive area of study for devising quantum algorithms for well-known classical problems as well as those arising in the field of quantum computing. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-11 K. Manouchehri , J. B. Wang

Restart is a common strategy observed in nature that accelerates first-passage processes and has been extensively studied using classical random walks. In the quantum regime, restart in continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs) has been shown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Kunal Shukla , Riddhi Chatterjee , C. M. Chandrashekar

Open quantum walks (OQWs) describe a quantum walker on an underlying graph whose dynamics is purely driven by dissipation and decoherence. Mathematically, they are formulated as completely positive trace preserving (CPTP) maps on the space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Garreth Kemp , Ilya Sinayskiy , Francesco Petruccione

In this work we study certain aspects of Open Quantum Random Walks (OQRWs), a class of quantum channels described by S. Attal et al. \cite{attal}. As a first objective we consider processes which are nonhomogeneous in time, i.e., at each…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Carlos F. Lardizabal , Rafael R. Souza

Quantum walks are promising tools based on classical random walks, with plenty of applications such as many variants of optimization. Here we introduce the semiclassical walks in discrete time, which are algorithms that combines classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Sergio A. Ortega , Miguel A. Martin-Delgado

This paper presents a simple model that mimics quantum mechanics (QM) results in terms of probability fields of free particles subject to self-interference, without using Schroedinger equation or complex wavefunctions. Unlike the standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Antonio Sciarretta

Topological phases, edge states, and flat bands in synthetic quantum systems are a key resource for topological quantum computing and noise-resilient information processing. We introduce a scheme based on step-dependent quantum walks on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Dinesh Kumar Panda , Colin Benjamin

Quantum walk models have been used as an algorithmic tool for quantum computation and to describe various physical processes. This paper revisits the relationship between relativistic quantum mechanics and the quantum walks. We show the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-29 C. M. Chandrashekar , Subhashish Banerjee , R. Srikanth

We present a graph random walk (GRW) method for the study of charge transport properties of complex molecular materials in the time-of-flight regime. The molecules forming the material are represented by the vertices of a directed weighted…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-01 Zhongquan Chen , Pim van der Hoorn , Björn Baumeier

We consider diffusivity of random walks with transition probabilities depending on the number of consecutive traversals of the last traversed edge, the so called senile reinforced random walk (SeRW). In one dimension, the walk is known to…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Thu Dinh , Jack Xin

Subordinating a random walk to a renewal process yields a continuous time random walk (CTRW) model for diffusion, including the possibility of anomalous diffusion. Transition densities of scaling limits of power law CTRWs have been shown to…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-05-14 Peter Straka , Bruce Ian Henry

In this paper, we consider continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs) on one-dimension ring lattice of N nodes in which every node is connected to its 2m nearest neighbors (m on either side). In the framework of the Bloch function ansatz, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xinping Xu , Feng Liu

We present a novel Adaptive Distribution Generator that leverages a quantum walks-based approach to generate high precision and efficiency of target probability distributions. Our method integrates variational quantum circuits with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Yen-Jui Chang , Wei-Ting Wang , Chen-Yu Liu , Yun-Yuan Wang , Ching-Ray Chang

Quantum Random Walks (QRW) were first defined as one-particle sectors of Quantum Lattice Gas Automata (QLGA). Recently, they have been generalized to include history dependence, either on previous coin (internal, i.e., spin or velocity)…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Asif Shakeel , David A. Meyer , Peter J. Love

A discrete time quantum walk is considered in which the step lengths are chosen to be either $1$ or $2$ with the additional feature that the walker is persistent with a probability $p$. This implies that with probability $p$, the walker…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 Suchetana Mukhopadhyay , Parongama Sen

The dynamical discrete web (DDW), introduced in recent work of Howitt and Warren, is a system of coalescing simple symmetric one-dimensional random walks which evolve in an extra continuous dynamical parameter s. The evolution is by…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 L. R. G. Fontes , C. M. Newman , K. Ravishankar , E. Schertzer