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Deutsche Physikalische Gessellschaft IOP Institute of Physics

Quantum walks with entangled coins

S E Venegas-Andraca1, J L Ball1, K Burnett1 and S Bose2

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We present a mathematical formalism for the description of un- restricted quantum walks with entangled coins and one walker. The numerical behaviour of such walks is examined when using a Bell state as the initial coin state, with two different coin operators, two different shift operators, and one walker. We compare and contrast the performance of these quantum walks with that of a classical random walk consisting of one walker and two maximally correlated coins as well as quantum walks with coins sharing different degrees of entanglement.

We illustrate that the behaviour of our walk with entangled coins can be very different in comparison to the usual quantum walk with a single coin. We also demonstrate that simply by changing the shift operator, we can generate widely different distributions. We also compare the behaviour of quantum walks with maximally entangled coins with that of quantum walks with non-entangled coins. Finally, we show that the use of different shift operators on two and three qubit coins leads to different position probability distributions in one- and two-dimensional graphs.


PACS

03.65.Ud Entanglement and quantum nonlocality (e.g. EPR paradox, Bell's inequalities, GHZ states, etc.)

03.67.Lx Quantum computation architectures and implementations

02.50.-r Probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics

05.40.-a Fluctuation phenomena, random processes, noise, and Brownian motion

Subjects

Computational physics

Statistical physics and nonlinear systems

Quantum information and quantum mechanics

Dates

Issue 1 (October 2005)

Received 28 June 2005

Published 17 October 2005



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