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In this paper, we consider continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs) on finite graphs determined by the Laplacian matrices. By introducing fully interconnected graph decomposition of given graphs, we show a decomposition method for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-20 Yusuke Ide

The scale-free property emerges in various real-world networks and is an essential property which characterizes the dynamics or features of such networks. In this work we investigate the effect of this scale-free property on a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 Tomo Osada , Bruno Coutinho , Yasser Omar , Kaoru Sanaka , William J. Munro , Kae Nemoto

In this work, we consider the application of continuous time quantum walking(CTQW) to the Maximum Clique(MC) Problem. Performing CTQW on graphs will generate distinct periodic probability amplitude for different vertices. We will show that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Xi Li , Mingyou Wu , Hanwu Chen

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

We present a novel lackadaisical alternating quantum walk (LAQW) algorithm whose circuit depth scales as $\mathcal{O}(n^2+nt)$ for a $n\times n$ lattice over $t$ time steps. We show that this is a significant depth reduction compared to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Natalie Gibson , Niklas Keckman , Andrea Marchesin , Matti Raasakka , Ilkka Tittonen

We study quantum transport on finite discrete structures and we model the process by means of continuous-time quantum walks. A direct and effective comparison between quantum and classical walks can be attained based on the average…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-08 E. Agliari , A. Blumen , O. Muelken

A discrete-time quantum walk (QW) is essentially a unitary operator driving the evolution of a single particle on the lattice. Some QWs have familiar physics PDEs as their continuum limit. Some slight generalization of them (allowing for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Pablo Arrighi , Giuseppe Di Molfetta , Stefano Facchini

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 play an important role in the area of quantum algorithms. Many interesting problems can be reduced to searching marked states in a quantum Markov chain. In this context, the notion of quantum hitting time is very important,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-08 R. A. M. Santos , R. Portugal

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

Compatibility with noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices is crucial for the realistic implementation of quantum cryptographic protocols. We investigate a cryptographic scheme based on discrete-time quantum walks (DTQWs) on cyclic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Aditi Rath , Dinesh Kumar Panda , Colin Benjamin

Quantum walks are a powerful framework for the development of quantum algorithms, with lackadaisical quantum walks (LQWs) standing out as an efficient model for spatial search. In this work, we investigate how broken-link decoherence…

The ability of quantum walks to evolve in a superposition of distinct quantum states has been used as a resource in quantum communication protocols. Under certain settings, the $k$-cycle discrete-time quantum walks\,(DTQW) are known to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Sanjeet Swaroop Panda , P. A. Ameen Yasir , C. M. Chandrashekar

Quantum walks exhibit many unique characteristics compared to classical random walks. In the classical setting, self-avoiding random walks have been studied as a variation on the usual classical random walk. Classical self-avoiding random…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Elizabeth Camilleri , Peter P. Rohde , Jason Twamley

There are at least three models of discrete-time quantum walks (QWs) on graphs currently under active development. In this work we focus on the equivalence of two of them, known as Szegedy's and staggered QWs. We give a formal definition of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-31 R. Portugal , R. A. M. Santos , T. D. Fernandes , D. N. Gonçalves

We present a quantum image encryption protocol that harnesses discrete-time quantum walks (DTQWs) on cycles and explicitly examines the role of the Parrondo paradox in security. Using the NEQR representation, a DTQW-generated probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Łukasz Pawela

This article presents a new quantum PageRank algorithm on graphs using discrete-time open quantum walks. Google's PageRank is a widely used algorithm for ranking the web pages on the World Wide Web in classical computation. From a broader…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Supriyo Dutta

Understanding the molecular determinants of specificity in protein-protein interaction is an outstanding challenge of postgenome biology. The availability of large protein databases generated from sequences of hundreds of bacterial genomes…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2009-01-12 M. Weigt , R. A. White , H. Szurmant , J. A. Hoch , T. Hwa

Reconstructing protein-protein interaction networks is a central challenge in network medicine, often addressed using link prediction algorithms. Recent studies suggest that quantum walk-based approaches hold promise for this task. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Gaia Forghieri , Viacheslav Dubovitskii , Matteo A. C. Rossi , Matteo G. A. Paris

Quantum thermodynamic uncertainty relations establish fundamental trade-offs between the precision achievable in quantum systems and associated thermodynamic quantities such as entropy production or dynamical activity. While foundational,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Nobumasa Ishida , Yoshihiko Hasegawa