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Distributing arbitrary graph states across quantum networks is a central challenge for modular quantum computing and measurement-based quantum communication. We introduce the phase quantum walk (PQW), a discrete-time quantum walk in which…

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We present a detailed analysis of continuous time quantum walks (CTQW) with both position and transition defects defined at a single point in the line. Analytical solutions of both traveling waves or bound states are obtained, which provide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-08 Zhi-Jian Li , J. B. Wang

We introduce the quantum stochastic walk (QSW), which determines the evolution of generalized quantum mechanical walk on a graph that obeys a quantum stochastic equation of motion. Using an axiomatic approach, we specify the rules for all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-09 César A. Rodríguez-Rosario , James D. Whitfield , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

We address the problem of computing a Minimum Weighted Vertex Cover (MWVC) in a decentralized network. MWVC, a classical NP-hard problem, is foundational in applications such as network monitoring and resource placement. We propose a fully…

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Link prediction is one of the fundamental problems in graph theory, critical for understanding and forecasting the evolution of complex systems like social and biological networks. While classical heuristics capture certain aspects of graph…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Priyank Dubey

Continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs) provide a valuable model for quantum transport, universal quantum computation and quantum spatial search, among others. Recently, the empowering role of new degrees of freedom in the Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Massimo Frigerio , Claudia Benedetti , Stefano Olivares , Matteo G. A. Paris

We demonstrate a synergy between dual-rail qubit encoding and continuous-time quantum walks (CTQW) to realize universal quantum logic in superconducting circuits. Utilizing the photon-number-conserving dynamics of CTQW on dual-rail…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Hao-Yu Guan , Yifei Li , Xiu-Hao Deng

We report the first realization of a fractional topological phase in a fully unitary, noninteracting discrete-time quantum walk implemented on finite cyclic graphs. Using a single-coin split-step cyclic quantum walk (SCSS-CQW), we uncover…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-10 Dinesh Kumar Panda , Colin Benjamin

Continuous time quantum walks provide an important framework for designing new algorithms and modelling quantum transport and state transfer problems. Often, the graph representing the structure of a problem contains certain symmetries that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-03 Leonardo Novo , Shantanav Chakraborty , Masoud Mohseni , Hartmut Neven , Yasser Omar

Quantum walks have wide applications in quantum information, such as universal quantum computation, so it is important to explore properties of quantum walks thoroughly. We propose a novel method to implement discrete-time quantum walks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-09 Qi-Ping Su , Shi-Chao Wang , Yan Chi , Yong-Nan Sun , Li Yu , Zhe Sun , Franco Nori , Chui-Ping Yang

Quantum walks (QW) are of crucial importance in the development of quantum information processing algorithms. Recently, several quantum algorithms have been proposed to implement network analysis, in particular to rank the centrality of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Tong Wu , J. A. Izaac , Zi-Xi Li , Kai Wang , Zhao-Zhong Chen , Shining Zhu , J. B. Wang , Xiao-Song Ma

The study of quantum walk processes has been widely divided into two standard variants, the discrete-time quantum walk (DTQW) and the continuous-time quantum walk (CTQW). The connection between the two variants has been established by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-08 C. M. Chandrashekar

Quantum walk is a useful model to simulate complex quantum systems and to build quantum algorithms; in particular, to develop spatial search algorithms on graphs, which aim to find a marked vertex as quickly as possible. Quantum walks are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Renato Portugal , Jalil Khatibi Moqadam

To overcome the physical limitations of scaling monolithic quantum computers, distributed quantum computing (DQC) interconnects multiple smaller-scale quantum processing units (QPUs) to form a quantum network. However, this approach…

The quantum circuit model is the most commonly used model for implementing quantum computers and quantum neural networks whose essential tasks are to realize certain unitary operations. The circuit model usually implements a desired unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Jia-Yi Lin , Xin-Yu Li , Yu-Hao Shao , Wei Wang , Shengjun Wu

Quantum walks provide a versatile framework for probing the structural and dynamical properties of complex systems ranging from biological networks to synthetic materials. However, their realization on current noisy pre-fault-tolerant…

One way to approximate a quantum annealing schedule is to use multiple quantum walks chained together, without intermediate measurements, to produce a multi-stage quantum walk (MSQW). Previous work has shown that a MSQW is better than QAOA…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Asa Hopkins , Viv Kendon

Quantum walks provide a natural framework to approach graph problems with quantum computers, exhibiting speedups over their classical counterparts for tasks such as the search for marked nodes or the prediction of missing links.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Duarte Magano , João Moutinho , Bruno Coutinho

Various quantum-walk based algorithms have been proposed to analyse and rank the centrality of graph vertices. However, issues arise when working with directed graphs --- the resulting non-Hermitian Hamiltonian leads to non-unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 J. A. Izaac , J. B. Wang , P. C. Abbott , X. S. Ma

Continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs) exhibit localization phenomena that differ fundamentally from their classical counterparts, yet the precise relationship between network structure, spectral degeneracy, and confined dynamics remains…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Shyam Dhamapurkar , K. Venkata Subrahmanyam