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Quantum walk search on a two-dimensional grid with extra edges

Quantum Physics 2025-03-07 v1

Abstract

Quantum walk has been successfully used to search for targets on graphs with vertices identified as the elements of a database. This spacial search on a two-dimensional periodic grid takes O(NlogN)\mathcal{O}\left(\sqrt{N\log N}\right) oracle consultations to find a target vertex from NN number of vertices with O(1)\mathcal{O}(1) success probability, while reaching optimal speed of O(N)\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{N}) on d3d \geq 3 dimensional square lattice. Our numerical analysis based on lackadaisical quantum walks searches MM vertices on a 2-dimensional grid with optimal speed of O(N/M)\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{N/M}), provided the grid is attached with additional long range edges. Based on the numerical analysis performed with multiple sets of randomly generated targets for a wide range of NN and MM we suggest that the optimal time complexity of O(N/M)\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{N/M}) with constant success probability can be achieved for quantum search on a two-dimensional periodic grid with long-range edges.

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@article{arxiv.2503.04016,
  title  = {Quantum walk search on a two-dimensional grid with extra edges},
  author = {Pulak Ranjan Giri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.04016},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

8 pages, 7 figures, published in IJTP

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