Brun-Type Formalism for Decoherence in Two-Dimensional Quantum Walks
Clement Boateng Ampadu · Communications in Theoretical Physics · 2012
We study decoherence in the quantum walk on the xy-plane. We generalize the method of decoherent coin quantum walk, introduced by [T.A. Brun, et al., Phys. Rev. A 67 (2003) 032304 ], which could be applicable to all sorts of decoherence in two-dimensional quantum walks, irrespective of the unitary transformation governing the walk. As an application we study decoherence in the presence of broken line noise in which the quantum walk is governed by the two-dimensional Hadamard operator.