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View SchemaEvanescence in Coined Quantum Walks
| Authors | Hilary A. Carteret, Bruce Richmond, Nico Temme |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0506048 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0506048 |
| DOI | 10.1088/0305-4470/38/40/011 |
| Journal | J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 38 (2005) 8641-8665 |
Abstract
In this paper we complete the analysis begun by two of the authors in a previous work on the discrete quantum walk on the line [J. Phys. A 36:8775-8795 (2003) quant-ph/0303105 ]. We obtain uniformly convergent asymptotics for the "exponential decay'' regions at the leading edges of the main peaks in the Schr{\"o}dinger (or wave-mechanics) picture. This calculation required us to generalise the method of stationary phase and we describe this extension in some detail, including self-contained proofs of all the technical lemmas required. We also rigorously establish the exact Feynman equivalence between the path-integral and wave-mechanics representations for this system using some techniques from the theory of special functions. Taken together with the previous work, we can now prove every theorem by both routes.
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