Asymptotic behavior of quantum walks with spatio-temporal coin fluctuations

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  • Andre Ahlbrecht
  • Christopher Cedzich
  • Robert Matjeschk
  • Volkher B. Scholz
  • Werner, Albert H.
  • Reinhard F. Werner

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.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftQuantum Information Processing
Vol/bind11
Udgave nummer5
Sider (fra-til)1219-1249
Antal sider31
ISSN1570-0755
DOI
StatusUdgivet - okt. 2012
Eksternt udgivetJa

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