WEAK LIMITS FOR QUANTUM WALKS ON THE HALF-LINE
CHAOBIN LIU, NELSON PETULANTE · International Journal of Quantum Information · 2013
For a discrete two-state quantum walk (QW) on the half-line with a general condition at the boundary, we formulate and prove a weak limit theorem describing the terminal behavior of its transition probabilities. In this context, localization is possible even for a walk predicated on the assumption of homogeneity. For the Hadamard walk on the half-line, the weak limit is shown to be independent of the initial coin state and to exhibit no localization.