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Here we study the dynamics of many-body quantum systems using time dependent quantum Monte Carlo method where the evolution is described by ensembles of particles and guide waves. The exponential-time scaling inherent to the quantum…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Ivan P. Christov

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

Classical and quantum walks on some finite paths are introduced. It is shown that these walks have explicit solutions given in terms of exceptional Krawtchouk polynomials and their properties are explored. In particular, fractional revival…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Hiroshi Miki , Satoshi Tsujimoto , Luc Vinet

We survey the equations of continuous-time quantum walks on simple one-dimensional lattices, which include the finite and infinite lines and the finite cycle, and compare them with the classical continuous-time Markov chains. The focus of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 D. ben-Avraham , E. Bollt , C. Tamon

The purpose of this paper is to give a direct proof of an eigenfunction expansion formula for one-dimensional 2-state quantum walks, which is an analog of that for Sturm-Liouville operators due to Weyl, Stone, Titchmarsh and Kodaira. In the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-09-13 Tatsuya Tate

We discuss spreading estimates for dynamical systems given by the iteration of an extended CMV matrix. Using a connection due to Cantero--Gr\"unbaum--Moral--Vel\'azquez, this enables us to study spreading rates for quantum walks in one…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-03-04 David Damanik , Jake Fillman , Darren C. Ong

Coined quantum walks may be interpreted as the motion in position space of a quantum particle with a spin degree of freedom; the dynamics are determined by iterating a unitary transformation which is the product of a spin transformation and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alex D. Gottlieb , Svante Janson , Petra F. Scudo

We examine the physical implementation of a discrete time quantum walk with a four-dimensional coin. Our quantum walker is a photon moving repeatedly through a time delay loop, with time being our position space. The quantum coin is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-02 Craig S Hamilton , Aurel Gabris , Igor Jex , Stephen M Barnett

Quantum Stochastic Walks (QSW) allow for a generalization of both quantum and classical random walks by describing the dynamic evolution of an open quantum system on a network, with nodes corresponding to quantum states of a fixed basis. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 Nicola Dalla Pozza , Filippo Caruso

We formulate continuous time quantum walks (CTQW) in a discrete quantum mechanical phase space. We define and calculate the Wigner function (WF) and its marginal distributions for CTQWs on circles of arbitrary length $N$. The WF of the CTQW…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Oliver Muelken , Alexander Blumen

The quantum walk was originally proposed as a quantum mechanical analogue of the classical random walk, and has since become a powerful tool in quantum information science. In this paper, we show that discrete time quantum walks provide a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-30 Takuya Kitagawa , Mark S. Rudner , Erez Berg , Eugene Demler

This tutorial article showcases the many varieties and uses of quantum walks. Discrete time quantum walks are introduced as counterparts of classical random walks. The emphasis is on the connections and differences between the two types of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-16 Daniel Reitzner , Daniel Nagaj , Vladimir Buzek

In this paper, we study discrete-time quantum walks on one-dimensional lattices. We find that the coherent dynamics depends on the initial states and coin parameters. For infinite size of lattice, we derive an explicit expression for the…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2015-05-18 Xin-Ping Xu

This study investigates unitary equivalent classes of one-dimensional quantum walks. We prove that one-dimensional quantum walks are unitary equivalent to quantum walks of Ambainis type and that translation-invariant one-dimensional quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-03-21 Hiromichi Ohno

In this paper, we study the discrete-time quantum walks on 1D Chain with the moving and swapping shift operators. We derive analytical solutions for the eigenvalues and eigenstates of the evolution operator $\hat{U}$ using the Chebyshev…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-03-14 Xin-Ping Xu , Xiao-Kun Zhang , Yusuke Ide , Norio Konno

A quantum walk on a toral phase space involving translations in position and its conjugate momentum is studied in the simple context of a coined walker in discrete time. The resultant walk, with a family of coins parametrized by an angle is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Sivaprasad Omanakuttan , Arul Lakshminarayan

Many phenomena in solid-state physics can be understood in terms of their topological properties. Recently, controlled protocols of quantum walks are proving to be effective simulators of such phenomena. Here we report the realization of a…

The Dirac equation can be modelled as a quantum walk, with the quantum walk being: discrete in time and space (i.e. a unitary evolution of the wave-function of a particle on a lattice); homogeneous (i.e. translation-invariant and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-07 Pablo Arrighi , Marcelo Forets , Vincent Nesme

The CGMV method allows for the general discussion of localization properties for the states of a one-dimensional quantum walk, both in the case of the integers and in the case of the non negative integers. Using this method we classify,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-28 M. J. Cantero , F. A. Grunbaum , L. Moral , L. Velazquez

Quantum walks are expected to provide useful algorithmic tools for quantum computation. This paper introduces absorbing probability and time of quantum walks and gives both numerical simulation results and theoretical analyses on Hadamard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tomohiro Yamasaki , Hirotada Kobayashi , Hiroshi Imai