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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

In a 1976 paper published in Science, Knuth presented an algorithm to sample (non-uniform) self-avoiding walks crossing a square of side k. From this sample, he constructed an estimator for the number of such walks. The quality of this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Mireille Bousquet-Mélou

Recently, several groups have investigated quantum analogues of random walk algorithms, both on a line and on a circle. It has been found that the quantum versions have markedly different features to the classical versions. Namely, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. C. Travaglione , G. J. Milburn

An ideal quantum walk transitions from one vertex to another with perfect fidelity, but in physical systems, the particle may be hindered by potential energy barriers. Then the particle has some amplitude of tunneling through the barriers,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-10 Thomas G. Wong

We describe a method to simulate Hamiltonian evolution on a quantum computer by repeatedly using a superposition of steps of a quantum walk, then applying a correction to the weightings for the numbers of steps of the quantum walk. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 Dominic W. Berry , Leonardo Novo

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

We propose a model of random walks on weighted graphs where the weights are interval valued, and connect it to reversible imprecise Markov chains. While the theory of imprecise Markov chains is now well established, this is a first attempt…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-20 Damjan Škulj

Most approximation algorithms for #P-complete problems (e.g., evaluating the permanent of a matrix or the volume of a polytope) work by reduction to the problem of approximate sampling from a distribution $\pi$ over a large set $\S$. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Peter C. Richter

Various subsets of self-avoiding walks naturally appear when investigating existing methods designed to predict the 3D conformation of a protein of interest. Two such subsets, namely the folded and the unfoldable self-avoiding walks, are…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2013-06-19 Jacques M. Bahi , Christophe Guyeux , Kamel Mazouzi , Laurent Philippe

This article is a pedagogical review of Monte Carlo methods for the self-avoiding walk, with emphasis on the extraordinarily efficient algorithms developed over the past decade. Many more details can be found in hep-lat/9405016.

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 Alan D. Sokal

Traditional force-controlled bipedal walking utilizes highly bent knees, resulting in high torques as well as inefficient, and unnatural motions. Even with advanced planning of center of mass height trajectories, significant amounts of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Robert J. Griffin , Sylvain Bertrand , Georg Wiedebach , Alexander Leonessa , Jerry Pratt

This paper examines the stability of the quantum random walk search algorithm, when the walk coin is constructed by generalized Householder reflection and additional phase shift, against inaccuracies in the phases used to construct the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-06 Hristo Tonchev , Petar Danev

The Maximum Matching problem has a quantum query complexity lower bound of $\Omega(n^{3/2})$ for graphs on $n$ vertices represented by an adjacency matrix. The current best quantum algorithm has the query complexity $O(n^{7/4})$, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Alcides Gomes Andrade Júnior , Akira Matsubayashi

We give an algorithm for counting self-avoiding walks or self-avoiding polygons that runs in time $\exp(C\sqrt{n\log n})$ on 2-dimensional lattices and time $\exp(C_dn^{(d-1)/d}\log n)$ on $d$-dimensional lattices for $d>2$.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Samuel Zbarsky

Self-avoiding walks (SAWs) were introduced in chemistry to model the real-life behavior of chain-like entities such as solvents and polymers, whose physical volume prohibits multiple occupation of the same spatial point. In mathematics, a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Franc Brglez

We develop and implement a parallel flatPERM algorithm \cite{G97,PK04} with mutually interacting parallel flatPERM sequences and use it to sample self-avoiding walks in 2 and 3 dimensions. Our data show that the parallel implementation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 S Campbell , EJ Janse van Rensburg

This work proposes a computational procedure that uses a quantum walk in a complete graph to train classical artificial neural networks. The idea is to apply the quantum walk to search the weight set values. However, it is necessary to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-09 Luciano S. de Souza , Jonathan H. A. de Carvalho , Tiago A. E. Ferreira

In this tutorial, which contains some original results, we bridge the fields of quantum computing algorithms, conservation laws, and many-body quantum systems by examining three algorithms for searching an unordered database of size $N$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 David A. Meyer , Thomas G. Wong

If the three dimensional self-avoiding walk (SAW) is conformally invariant, then one can compute the hitting densities for the SAW in a half-space and in a sphere. The ensembles of SAW's used to define these hitting densities involve walks…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Tom Kennedy

We describe a new algorithm for the enumeration of self-avoiding walks on the square lattice. Using up to 128 processors on a HP Alpha server cluster we have enumerated the number of self-avoiding walks on the square lattice to length 71.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Iwan Jensen