Asymptotic behavior of quantum walks with spatio-temporal coin fluctuations
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Quantum walks subject to decoherence generically suffer the loss of their genuine quantum feature, a quadratically faster spreading compared to classical random walks. This intuitive statement has been verified analytically for certain models and is also supported by numerical studies of a variety of examples. In this paper we analyze the long-time behavior of a particular class of decoherent quantum walks, which, to the best of our knowledge, was only studied at the level of numerical simulations before.We consider a local coin operation which is randomly and independently chosen for each time step and each lattice site and prove that, under rather mild conditions, this leads to classical behavior: With the same scaling as needed for a classical diffusion the position distribution converges to a Gaussian, which is independent of the initial state. Our method is based on non-degenerate perturbation theory and yields an explicit expression for the covariance matrix of the asymptotic Gaussian in terms of the randomness parameters.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Quantum Information Processing |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 5 |
Pages (from-to) | 1219-1249 |
Number of pages | 31 |
ISSN | 1570-0755 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Oct 2012 |
Externally published | Yes |
- Asymptotic behavior, Perturbation theory, Quantumwalk, Spatio-temporal coin fluctuation
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