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Gap-protected topological channels are a promising way to realize robust and high-fidelity state transfer in quantum networks. Although various topological transfer protocols based on the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model or its variants have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Tian Tian

In this article, we propose a quantum communication protocol via 2-step discrete time quantum walks with two coins on a graph of 10 vertices containing both cycles and paths. Quantum walks are known for their ability to integrate quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Rachana Soni , Neelam Choudhary , Navneet Pratap Singh

In this paper, we analyze the dynamics of quantum walks on a graph structure resulting from the integration of a main connected graph $G$ and a secondary connected graph $G'$. This composite graph is formed by a disjoint union of $G$ and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-14 Taisuke Hosaka , Renato Portugal , Etsuo Segawa

We solve an open problem by constructing quantum walks that not only detect but also find marked vertices in a graph. In the case when the marked set $M$ consists of a single vertex, the number of steps of the quantum walk is quadratically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-01 Hari Krovi , Frédéric Magniez , Maris Ozols , Jérémie Roland

Quantum-circuit implementations of continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs) can provide an efficient route to model graph-based algorithms. However, constructing circuits that faithfully reproduce CTQW dynamics across arbitrary graphs remains…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Sabyasachi Chakraborty , Rohit Sarma Sarkar , Sonjoy Majumder , Rohit Kishan Ray

Coherent evolution governs the behaviour of all quantum systems, but in nature it is often subjected to influence of a classical environment. For analysing quantum transport phenomena quantum walks emerge as suitable model systems. In…

Quantum walks are central to a wide range of applications such as quantum search, quantum information processing, and entanglement transport. Gaining control over the duration and the direction of quantum walks (QWs) is crucial to…

We study a discrete-time quantum walk (QW) on the line with a single phase at the origin which was introduced and studied by Wojcik et al.[1]. We call the model "Wojcik model" here. Konno et al.[2] investigated other types of QWs with one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-12 Takako Endo , Norio Konno

We investigate the counterparts of random walk in universal quantum computing and their implementation using standard quantum circuits. Quantum walk have been recently well investigated for traversing graphs with certain oracles. We focus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-07 Iyed Ben Slimen , Amor Gueddana , Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan

Open Quantum Walks (OQW) are a type of quantum walk governed by the system's interaction with its environment. We explore the time evolution and the limit behavior of the OQW framework for Quantum Computation and show how we can represent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Pedro Linck Maciel , Nadja K. Bernardes

In this work, we generalize the recently-introduced graph composition framework to the non-boolean setting. A quantum algorithm in this framework is represented by a hypergraph, where each hyperedge is adjacent to multiple vertices. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Arjan Cornelissen

Continuous-time open quantum walks (CTOQW) are introduced as the formulation of quantum dynamical semigroups of trace-preserving and completely positive linear maps (or quantum Markov semigroups) on graphs. We show that a CTOQW always…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-19 Chaobin Liu , Radhakrishnan Balu

Quantum walks are expected to serve important modelling and algorithmic applications in many areas of science and mathematics. Although quantum walks have been successfully implemented physically in recent times, no major efforts have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-07 S. D. Freedman , Y. H. Tong , J. B. Wang

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) is a foundational cryptographic protocol that ensures information-theoretic security. However, classical protocols such as BB84, though favored for their simplicity, offer limited resistance to eavesdropping,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 David Polzoni , Tommaso Bianchi , Mauro Conti

Research has shown that quantum walks can accelerate certain quantum algorithms and act as a universal paradigm for quantum processing. The discrete-time quantum walk (DTQW) model, owing to its discrete nature, stands out as one of the most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Biswayan Nandi , Sandipan Singha , Ankan Datta , Amit Saha , Amlan Chakrabarti

Currently there are three major paradigms of quantum computation, the gate model, annealing, and walks on graphs. The gate model and quantum walks on graphs are universal computation models, while annealing plays within a specific subset of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-16 Clark Alexander

A continuous-time quantum walk on a graph evolves according to the unitary operator $e^{-iAt}$, where $A$ is the adjacency matrix of the graph. Perfect state transfer (PST) in a quantum walk is the transfer of a quantum state from one node…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 Jaideep Mulherkar , Rishikant Rajdeepak , V. Sunitha

A continuous-time quantum random walk describes the motion of a quantum mechanical particle on an underlying graph. The graph itself is associated with a Hilbert space of dimension equal to the number of vertices. The dynamics of the walk…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-28 Jaideep Mulherkar , Rishikant Rajdeepak , V. Sunitha

We introduce and study peak state transfer, a notion of high state transfer in qubit networks modeled by continuous-time quantum walks. Unlike perfect or pretty good state transfer, peak state transfer does not require fidelity arbitrarily…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Gabriel Coutinho , Krystal Guo , Vincent Schmeits

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