Quantum walks with sequential aperiodic jumps

MA Pires, SMD Queirós - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
We analyze a set of discrete-time quantum walks for which the displacements on a chain
follow binary aperiodic jumps according to three paradigmatic sequences: Fibonacci, Thue …

Maximal coin-position entanglement generation in a quantum walk for the third step and beyond regardless of the initial state

XX Fang, K An, BT Zhang, BC Sanders, H Lu - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
We study maximal coin-position entanglement generation via a discrete-time quantum walk,
in which the coin operation is randomly selected from one of two coin operators set at each …

Quantum circuits for discrete-time quantum walks with position-dependent coin operator

U Nzongani, J Zylberman, CE Doncecchi… - Quantum Information …, 2023 - Springer
The aim of this paper is to build quantum circuits that implement discrete-time quantum
walks having an arbitrary position-dependent coin operator. The position of the walker is …

Aperiodic space-inhomogeneous quantum walks: Localization properties, energy spectra, and enhancement of entanglement

ARC Buarque, WS Dias - Physical Review E, 2019 - APS
We study the localization properties, energy spectra, and coin-position entanglement of the
aperiodic discrete-time quantum walks. The aperiodicity is described by spatially dependent …

Enhancing entanglement with the generalized elephant quantum walk from localized and delocalized states

CB Naves, MA Pires, DO Soares-Pinto, SMD Queirós - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
Recently, a generalization of a nonstandard step operator named the elephant quantum
walk (EQW) was introduced. With proper statistical distribution for the steps, that generalized …

Simulating Dirac Hamiltonian in curved space-time by split-step quantum walk

A Mallick, S Mandal, A Karan… - Journal of Physics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Dirac particle represents a fundamental constituent of our nature. Simulation of Dirac particle
dynamics by a controllable quantum system using quantum walks will allow us to investigate …

Quantum walks in weak electric fields and Bloch oscillations

P Arnault, B Pepper, A Pérez - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
Bloch oscillations appear when an electric field is superimposed on a quantum particle that
evolves on a lattice with a tight-binding Hamiltonian (TBH), ie, evolves via what we call an …

Multiple transitions between normal and hyperballistic diffusion in quantum walks with time-dependent jumps

MA Pires, GD Molfetta, SMD Queirós - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
We extend to the gamut of functional forms of the probability distribution of the time-
dependent step-length a previous model dubbed Elephant Quantum Walk, which considers …

Negative correlations can play a positive role in disordered quantum walks

MA Pires, SM Duarte Queirós - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
We investigate the emerging properties of quantum walks with temporal disorder
engineered from a binary Markov chain with tailored correlation, C, and disorder strength, r …

A simple coin for a 2d entangled walk

A Zahed, K Sen - SciPost Physics Core, 2023 - scipost.org
We analyze the effect of a simple coin operator, built out of Bell pairs, in a 2d Discrete
Quantum Random Walk (DQRW) problem. The specific form of the coin enables us to find …