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Quantum measurements play a fundamental role in quantum mechanics and quantum information processing, but it is not easy to implement generalized measurements, the most powerful measurements allowed by quantum mechanics. Here we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-02 Zihao Li , Haoyu Zhang , Huangjun Zhu

Khrushchev's formula is the cornerstone of the so called Khrushchev theory, a body of results which has revolutionized the theory of orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle. This formula can be understood as a factorization of the Schur…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-10-31 C. Cedzich , F. A. Grünbaum , L. Velázquez , A. H. Werner , R. F. Werner

We propose a general framework for quantum walks on d-dimensional spaces. We investigate asymptotic behavior of these walks. Among them, existence of limit distribution of homogeneous walks is proved. In this theorem, the support of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Hiroki Sako

Universal quantum computation can be realised using both continuous-time and discrete-time quantum walks. We present a version based on single particle discrete-time quantum walk to realize multi-qubit computation tasks. The scalability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Prateek Chawla , Shivani Singh , Aman Agarwal , Sarvesh Srinivasan , C. M. Chandrashekar

Photonics provide an efficient way to implement quantum walks, the quantum analogue of classical random walk that demonstrates rich physics with potential applications. However, most photonic quantum walks do not involve photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-17 Xinyuan Zheng , Edo Waks

The dimensionality of the internal coin space of discrete-time quantum walks has a strong impact on the complexity and richness of the dynamics of quantum walkers. While two-dimensional coin operators are sufficient to define a certain…

We derive the continuous-time limit of discrete quantum walks with topological phases. We show the existence of a continuous-time limit that preserves their topological phases. We consider both simple-step and split-step walks, and derive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Radhakrishnan Balu , Daniel Castillo , George Siopsis , Christian Weedbrook

Quantum walks, both discrete and continuous, serve as fundamental tools in quantum information processing with diverse applications. This work introduces a hybrid quantum walk model that integrates the coin mechanism of discrete walks with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Tianen Chen , Yun Shang

Describing a particle in an external electromagnetic field is a basic task of quantum mechanics. The standard scheme for this is known as "minimal coupling", and consists of replacing the momentum operators in the Hamiltonian by modified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 C. Cedzich , T. Geib , A. H. Werner , R. F. Werner

We present a review on the progress in the understanding and characterization of holonomy and topology of a discrete-time quantum walk architecture, consisting of a unitary step given by a sequence of two non-commuting rotations in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-05 G. Puentes

A continuous-time quantum walk on a dynamic graph evolves by Schr\"odinger's equation with a sequence of Hamiltonians encoding the edges of the graph. This process is universal for quantum computing, but in general, the dynamic graph that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-20 Rebekah Herrman , Thomas G. Wong

Recently, it has been shown that one-dimensional quantum walks can mix more quickly than classical random walks, suggesting that quantum Monte Carlo algorithms can outperform their classical counterparts. We study two quantum walks on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cristopher Moore , Alexander Russell

The study of quantum walks has been shown to have a wide range of applications in areas such as artificial intelligence, the study of biological processes, and quantum transport. The quantum stochastic walk, which allows for incoherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-20 Luke C. G. Govia , Bruno G. Taketani , Peter K. Schuhmacher , Frank K. Wilhelm

In this work we introduce discrete-time quantum walks in state space, more precisely on Fock-state lattices. Fock-state lattices provide a natural and clean setting for implementing lattice models, particularly in quantum optical systems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Piergiorgio Ferraro , Caio B. Naves , Jonas Larson

We set the ground for a theory of quantum walks on graphs- the generalization of random walks on finite graphs to the quantum world. Such quantum walks do not converge to any stationary distribution, as they are unitary and reversible.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Dorit Aharonov , Andris Ambainis , Julia Kempe , Umesh Vazirani

In the worldline formalism, scalar Quantum Electrodynamics on a 2-dimensional lattice is related to the areas of closed loops on this lattice. We exploit this relationship in order to determine the general structure of the moments of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-06-23 Thomas Epelbaum , Francois Gelis , Bin Wu

We demonstrate an alternative method for calculating the asymptotic behaviour of the discrete one-coin quantum walk on the infinite line, via the Jacobi polynomials that arise in the path integral representation. This is significantly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Hilary A. Carteret , Mourad E. H. Ismail , Bruce Richmond

Quantum and random walks have been shown to be equivalent in the following sense: a time-dependent random walk can be constructed such that its vertex distribution at all time instants is identical to the vertex distribution of any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Matheus G. Andrade , Franklin de Lima Marquezino , Daniel R. Figueiredo

We investigate a connection between a property of the distribution and a conserved quantity for the reversible cellular automaton derived from a discrete-time quantum walk in one dimension. As a corollary, we give a detailed information of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Norio Konno , Kenichi Mitsuda , Takahiro Soshi , Hyun Jae Yoo

We report recent progress on the phase space formulation of quantum mechanics with coordinate-momentum variables, focusing more on new theory of (weighted) constraint coordinate-momentum phase space for discrete-variable quantum systems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Xin He , Baihua Wu , Youhao Shang , Bingqi Li , Xiangsong Cheng , Jian Liu