One dimensional quantum walk with unitary noise

Details One dimensional quantum walk with unitary noise One dimensional quantum walk with unitary noise

2003-09-07

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0309063v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

28 pages, 12 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.68.062315

The effect of unitary noise on the discrete one-dimensional quantum walk is studied using computer simulations. For the noiseless quantum walk, starting at the origin (n=0) at time t=0, the position distribution Pt(n) at time t is very different from the Gaussian distribution obtained for the classical random walk. Furthermore, its standard deviation, sigma(t) scales as sigma(t) ~ t, unlike the classical random walk for which sigma(t) ~ sqrt{t}. It is shown that when the quantum walk is exposed to unitary noise, it exhibits a crossover from quantum behavior for short times to classical-like behavior for long times. The crossover time is found to be T ~ alpha^(-2) where alpha is the standard deviation of the noise.

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