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View SchemaAn example of the difference between quantum and classical random walks
| Authors | Andrew M. Childs, Edward Farhi, Sam Gutmann |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0103020 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0103020 |
| DOI | 10.1023/A:1019609420309 |
| Journal | Quantum Information Processing 1, 35 (2002) |
Abstract
In this note, we discuss a general definition of quantum random walks on graphs and illustrate with a simple graph the possibility of very different behavior between a classical random walk and its quantum analogue. In this graph, propagation between a particular pair of nodes is exponentially faster in the quantum case.
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