Quantum walk on the line through potential barriers

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DOI10.1007/S11128-015-1215-6zbMATH Open1333.81215arXiv1509.07112OpenAlexW3098639553MaRDI QIDQ264601FDOQ264601


Authors: Thomas G. Wong Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 1 April 2016

Published in: Quantum Information Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Quantum walks are well-known for their ballistic dispersion, traveling Theta(t) away in t steps, which is quadratically faster than a classical random walk's diffusive spreading. In physical implementations of the walk, however, the particle may need to tunnel through a potential barrier to hop, and a naive calculation suggests this could eliminate the ballistic transport. We show by explicit calculation, however, that such a loss does not occur. Rather, the Theta(t) dispersion is retained, with only the coefficient changing, which additionally gives a way to detect and quantify the hopping errors in experiments.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.07112




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