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Efficient quantum walk on a quantum processor

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Xiaogang Qiang
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T. Loke
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Ashley Montanaro
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Kanin Aungskunsiri
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Xiaoqi Zhou
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Jeremy L. O’Brien
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Jingbo Wang *
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Jonathan C. F. Matthews *
DOI:10.1038/ncomms11511delete
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The random walk formalism is used across a wide range of applications, from modelling share prices to predicting population genetics. Likewise, quantum walks have shown much potential as a framework for developing new quantum algorithms. Here we present explicit efficient quantum circuits for implementing continuous-time quantum walks on the circulant class of graphs. These circuits allow us to sample from the output probability distributions of quantum walks on circulant graphs efficiently. We also show that solving the same sampling problem for arbitrary circulant quantum circuits is intractable for a classical computer, assuming conjectures from computational complexity theory. This is a new link between continuous-time quantum walks and computational complexity theory and it indicates a family of tasks that could ultimately demonstrate quantum supremacy over classical computers. As a proof of principle, we experimentally implement the proposed quantum circuit on an example circulant graph using a two-qubit photonics quantum processor.
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