TY - JOUR
T1 - Exceptional quantum walk search on the cycle
AU - Wong, Thomas G.
AU - Santos, Raqueline A.M.
N1 - Funding Information:
T.W. thanks the quantum computing group at the University of Texas at Austin for useful discussions. T.W. was supported by the U.S. Department of Defense Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship of Scott Aaronson. R.S. was supported by the RAQUEL (Grant Agreement No. 323970) project and the ERC Advanced Grant MQC.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2017/6/1
Y1 - 2017/6/1
N2 - Quantum walks are standard tools for searching graphs for marked vertices, and they often yield quadratic speedups over a classical random walk’s hitting time. In some exceptional cases, however, the system only evolves by sign flips, staying in a uniform probability distribution for all time. We prove that the one-dimensional periodic lattice or cycle with any arrangement of marked vertices is such an exceptional configuration. Using this discovery, we construct a search problem where the quantum walk’s random sampling yields an arbitrary speedup in query complexity over the classical random walk’s hitting time. In this context, however, the mixing time to prepare the initial uniform state is a more suitable comparison than the hitting time, and then, the speedup is roughly quadratic.
AB - Quantum walks are standard tools for searching graphs for marked vertices, and they often yield quadratic speedups over a classical random walk’s hitting time. In some exceptional cases, however, the system only evolves by sign flips, staying in a uniform probability distribution for all time. We prove that the one-dimensional periodic lattice or cycle with any arrangement of marked vertices is such an exceptional configuration. Using this discovery, we construct a search problem where the quantum walk’s random sampling yields an arbitrary speedup in query complexity over the classical random walk’s hitting time. In this context, however, the mixing time to prepare the initial uniform state is a more suitable comparison than the hitting time, and then, the speedup is roughly quadratic.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11128-017-1606-y
DO - 10.1007/s11128-017-1606-y
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85018389846
VL - 16
JO - Quantum Information Processing
JF - Quantum Information Processing
SN - 1570-0755
IS - 6
M1 - 154
ER -