The Limiting Distribution of Decoherent Quantum Random Walks

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2008-04-28

arxiv.org/abs/0804.4311v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

38 pages. 3 figures. Based on a Ph.D. thesis at Temple University

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.77.062302

The behaviors of one-dimensional quantum random walks are strikingly different from those of classical ones. However, when decoherence is involved, the limiting distributions take on many classical features over time. In this paper, we study the decoherence on both position and ``coin'' spaces of the particle. We propose a new analytical approach to investigate these phenomena and obtain the generating functions which encode all the features of these walks. Specifically, from these generating functions, we find exact analytic expressions of several moments for the time and noise dependence of position. Moreover, the limiting position distributions of decoherent quantum random walks are shown to be Gaussian in an analytical manner. These results explicitly describe the relationship between the system and the level of decoherence.

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