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Diagrammatic approach to quantum search

Thomas G. Wong

subject

Quantum PhysicsQuantum particleDegenerate energy levelsFOS: Physical sciencesStatistical and Nonlinear PhysicsQuantum searchGraphTheoretical Computer ScienceElectronic Optical and Magnetic MaterialsDiagrammatic reasoningModeling and SimulationSignal ProcessingStatistical physicsElectrical and Electronic EngineeringQuantum Physics (quant-ph)Subspace topologyMathematics

description

We introduce a simple diagrammatic approach for estimating how a randomly walking quantum particle searches on a graph in continuous-time, which involves sketching small weighted graphs with self-loops and considering degenerate perturbation theory's effects on them. Using this method, we give the first example of degenerate perturbation theory solving search on a graph whose evolution occurs in a subspace whose dimension grows with $N$.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-015-0959-3