Quantum walks as massless Dirac fermions in curved space-time

G Di Molfetta, M Brachet, F Debbasch - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular …, 2013 - APS
A particular family of time-and space-dependent discrete-time quantum walks (QWs) is
considered in one-dimensional physical space. The continuous limit of these walks is …

Quantum walks in artificial electric and gravitational fields

G Di Molfetta, M Brachet, F Debbasch - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics …, 2014 - Elsevier
The continuous limit of quantum walks (QWs) on the line is revisited through a new, recently
developed method. In all cases but one, the limit coincides with the dynamics of a Dirac …

Quantum walks and discrete gauge theories

P Arnault, F Debbasch - Physical Review A, 2016 - APS
A particular example is produced to prove that quantum walks can be used to simulate full-
fledged discrete gauge theories. A family of two-dimensional walks is introduced and its …

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 …

Elephant quantum walk

G Di Molfetta, DO Soares-Pinto, SMD Queirós - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
We introduce an analytically treatable discrete time quantum walk in a one-dimensional
lattice which combines non-Markovianity and hyperballistic diffusion associated with a …

Bright and dark solitons in a photonic nonlinear quantum walk: lessons from the continuum

A Anglés-Castillo, A Pérez, E Roldán - New Journal of Physics, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose a nonlinear quantum walk model inspired in a photonic implementation in
which the polarization state of the light field plays the role of the coin-qubit. In particular, we …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum walks in weak stochastic gauge fields

J Wójcik - Physics Letters A, 2024 - Elsevier
Contrary to the ballistic dynamics of standard quantum walks, the behavior of stochastic
quantum walks is known to be diffusive. Here we study discrete time quantum walks in weak …

Clifford algebra from quantum automata and unitary Wilson fermions

P Arnault - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
We introduce a spacetime discretization of the Dirac equation that has the form of a quantum
automaton and that is invariant upon changing the representation of the Clifford algebra, like …

Discrete-time quantum walks and gauge theories

P Arnault - arxiv preprint arxiv:1710.11123, 2017 - arxiv.org
A quantum computer, ie utilizing the resources of quantum physics, superposition of states
and entanglement, could furnish an exponential gain in computing time. A simulation using …

Solitons in a photonic nonlinear quantum walk: lessons from the continuum

A Anglés-Castillo, A Pérez, E Roldán - arxiv preprint arxiv:2308.01014, 2023 - arxiv.org
We analyse a nonlinear QW model which can be experimentally implemented using the
components of the electric field on an optical nonlinear Kerr medium, which translates into a …