On the hitting times of quantum versus random walks

Algorithmica

Volumn 63, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 91-116

  Magniez, Frédéric ^a   Nayak, Ashwin ^b,c   Richter, Peter C ^d   Santha, Miklos ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^d UFR 919 Laboratoire d'Informatique Pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur   (France)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Hitting time; Markov chain; Quantum hitting time; Quantum walk; Random walk

Indexed keywords

DETECTION ALGORITHM; ERGODICS; FINDING ALGORITHM; HITTING TIME; LAS VEGAS; MONTE CARLO; PHASE ESTIMATION; QUANTUM ALGORITHMS; QUANTUM WALK; RANDOM WALK; SQUARE ROOTS; TIME COMPLEXITY;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84858867139     PISSN: 01784617     EISSN: 14320541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00453-011-9521-6     Document Type: Article

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