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This work describes a new algorithm for creating a superposition over the edge set of a graph, encoding a quantum sample of the random walk stationary distribution. The algorithm requires a number of quantum walk steps scaling as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-26 Simon Apers

Quantum state transfer between different sites is a significant problem for quantum networks and quantum computers. By selecting quantum walks with two coins as the basic model and two coin spaces as the communication carriers, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-13 Yun Shang , Meng Li

In this letter we introduce the concept of a driven quantum walk. This work is motivated by recent theoretical and experimental progress that combines quantum walks and parametric down- conversion, leading to fundamentally different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-29 Craig S. Hamilton , Regina Kruse , Linda Sansoni , Christine Silberhorn , Igor Jex

A distinctive feature of non-Hermitian systems is the skin effect, which has attracted widespread attention in recent studies. Quantum walks provide a powerful platform for exploring the underlying mechanisms of the non-Hermitian skin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Ding Cheng , Yi Li , Hao Zhao , Haijun Kang , Cui Kong , Jiguo Wang , Feng Mei , Chuanjia Shan , Jibing Liu

Quantum walks on graphs are fundamental to quantum computing and have led to many interesting open problems in algebraic graph theory. This review article highlights three key classes of open problems in this domain; perfect state transfer,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Gabriel Coutinho , Krystal Guo

Quantization and asymptotic behaviour of a variant of discrete random walk on integers are investigated. This variant, the $\epsilon_{V^{k}}$ walk, has the novel feature that it uses many identical quantum coins keeping at the same time…

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

We study a class of symmetric quantum walks on Hamming graphs, where the distance between vertices specifies the transition probability. A special model is the simple quantum walk on the hypercube, which has been discussed in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Robert Griffiths , Shuhei Mano

A quantum walk is the quantum analogue of a random walk. While it is relatively well understood how quantum walks can speed up random walk hitting times, it is a long-standing open question to what extent quantum walks can speed up the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Simon Apers , Laurent Miclo

This work introduces a graph-phased Szegedy's quantum walk, which incorporates link phases and local arbitrary phase rotations (APR), unlocking new possibilities for quantum algorithm efficiency. We demonstrate how to adapt quantum circuits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Sergio A. Ortega , Miguel A. Martin-Delgado

In this article we present an effective Hamiltonian approach for Discrete Time Quantum Random Walk. A form of the Hamiltonian for one dimensional quantum walk has been prescribed, utilizing the fact that Hamiltonians are the generators of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 Debajyoti Sarkar , Niladri Paul , Kaushik Bhattacharya , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

Computational advantages gained by quantum algorithms rely largely on the coherence of quantum devices and are generally compromised by decoherence. As an exception, we present a quantum algorithm for graph isomorphism testing whose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-22 M. Bruderer , M. B. Plenio

In recent years, new neural network architectures designed to operate on graph-structured data have pushed the state-of-the-art in the field. A large set of these architectures utilize a form of classical random walks to diffuse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-18 Stefan Dernbach , Arman Mohseni-Kabir , Siddharth Pal , Don Towsley , Miles Gepner

Quantum random walks have received much interest due to their non-intuitive dynamics, which may hold the key to a new generation of quantum algorithms. What remains a major challenge is a physical realization that is experimentally viable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-18 K Manouchehri , J. B. Wang

Quantum walks can reconstruct quantum algorithms for quantum computation, where the precise controls of quantum state transfers between arbitrary distant sites are required. Here, we investigate quantum walks using a periodically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-06 Haruna Katayama , Noriyuki Hatakenaka , Toshiyuki Fujii

The ability to accurately transfer quantum information through networks is an important primitive in distributed quantum systems. While perfect quantum state transfer (PST) can be effected by a single particle undergoing continuous-time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-01 Steven J. Large , Michael S. Underwood , David L. Feder

We present an efficient general method for realizing a quantum walk operator corresponding to an arbitrary sparse classical random walk. Our approach is based on Grover and Rudolph's method for preparing coherent versions of efficiently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-12 Chen-Fu Chiang , Daniel Nagaj , Pawel Wocjan

Quantum walks on graphs can model physical processes and serve as efficient tools in quantum information theory. Once we admit random variations in the connectivity of the underlying graph, we arrive at the problem of percolation, where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-12 Bálint Kollár , Jaroslav Novotný , Tamás Kiss , Igor Jex

In this paper, we develop a generic controlled alternate quantum walk model (called CQWM-P) by combining parity-dependent quantum walks with distinct arbitrary memory lengths and then construct a quantum-inspired hash function (called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-11 Qing Zhou , Xueming Tang , Songfeng Lu , Hao Yang

Quantum walks, in virtue of the coherent superposition and quantum interference, possess exponential superiority over its classical counterpart in applications of quantum searching and quantum simulation. The quantum enhanced power is…

We propose a new family of discrete-spacetime quantum walks capable to propagate on any arbitrary triangulations. Moreover we also extend and generalize the duality principle introduced by one of the authors, linking continuous local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Giuseppe Di Molfetta , Victor Deng