Quantum to classical transition for random walks.

T. Brun; H. Carteret; A. Ambainis

DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.130602

Corpus ID: 45744003

Quantum to classical transition for random walks.

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  title={Quantum to classical transition for random walks.},
  author={T. Brun and H. Carteret and A. Ambainis},
  journal={Physical review letters},
  year={2003},
  volume={91 13},
  pages={
          130602
        }
}

T. Brun, H. Carteret, A. Ambainis
Published 2003
Mathematics, Physics, Medicine
Physical review letters

We look at two possible routes to classical behavior for the discrete quantum random walk on the integers: decoherence in the quantum "coin" which drives the walk, or the use of higher-dimensional (or multiple) coins to dilute the effects of interference. We use the position variance as an indicator of classical behavior and find analytical expressions for this in the long-time limit; we see that the multicoin walk retains the "quantum" quadratic growth of the variance except in the limit of a… Expand

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