Interference-induced dynamical crossovers in quantum walks on disordered square lattices
Abstract
We study discrete-time quantum walks with Fourier, Grover, and Hadamard coin operators on disordered square lattices, alongside classical random walks. Edges in the lattice are absent with a probability, p. In this case, both classical and quantum walks exhibit an essentially identical degradation of transport. We then study a general version of this model, in which the existing edges are retained. However, the absent edges are no longer absent, but now become partially transmitting, with a transmission coefficient f. We find that the response is now quite sensitive to the walk protocol and coin symmetry. The classical walk exhibits asymptotic stability of the anomalous diffusion exponent, β(t). In comparison, quantum walks exhibit a monotonically decaying β(t) beyond the initial transient regime, leading to the absence of quantum diffusion in two dimensions. We map the transport regimes in the (f,p) plane and identify the contour for β=1, which separates the subdiffusive and superdiffusive regimes. We also examine the effective diffusion coefficient, the inverse participation ratio, and the first two moments of edge transmission. We restrict ourselves to analyzing bulk propagation prior to finite-size boundary reflections. The results indicate that quantum transport depends significantly on coin-specific interference and cannot be fully described by transmission statistics alone.
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BibTeX
@misc{bera2026interferenceinduced,
title = {{Interference-induced dynamical crossovers in quantum walks on disordered square lattices}},
author = {Ramnarayan Bera and Arijit Roy and Soumyadip Ghosh and Soumen Roy},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.35828},
eprint = {2610.35828},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.35828},
note = {CC BY-NC-ND 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Interference-induced dynamical crossovers in quantum walks on disordered square lattices
AU - Ramnarayan Bera
AU - Arijit Roy
AU - Soumyadip Ghosh
AU - Soumen Roy
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/26
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.35828
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.35828
AB - We study discrete-time quantum walks with Fourier, Grover, and Hadamard coin operators on disordered square lattices, alongside classical random walks. Edges in the lattice are absent with a probability, p. In this case, both classical and quantum walks exhibit an essentially identical degradation of transport. We then study a general version of this model, in which the existing edges are retained. However, the absent edges are no longer absent, but now become partially transmitting, with a transmission coefficient f. We find that the response is now quite sensitive to the walk protocol and coin symmetry. The classical walk exhibits asymptotic stability of the anomalous diffusion exponent, β(t). In comparison, quantum walks exhibit a monotonically decaying β(t) beyond the initial transient regime, leading to the absence of quantum diffusion in two dimensions. We map the transport regimes in the (f,p) plane and identify the contour for β=1, which separates the subdiffusive and superdiffusive regimes. We also examine the effective diffusion coefficient, the inverse participation ratio, and the first two moments of edge transmission. We restrict ourselves to analyzing bulk propagation prior to finite-size boundary reflections. The results indicate that quantum transport depends significantly on coin-specific interference and cannot be fully described by transmission statistics alone.
ER -