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Marcelo A Pires1, Giuseppe Di Molfetta2, Sílvio M Duarte Queirós1,3
1Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Rua Dr Xavier Sigaud, 150, 22290-180, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Abstract:
We extend to the gamut of functional forms of the probability distribution of the time-dependent step-length a previous model dubbed Elephant Quantum Walk, which considers a uniform distribution and yields hyperballistic dynamics where the variance grows cubicly with time, σ2 ∝ t3, and a Gaussian for the position of the walker. We investigate this proposal both locally and globally with the results showing that the time-dependent interplay between interference, memory and long-range hopping leads to multiple transitions between dynamical regimes, namely ballistic → diffusive → superdiffusive → ballistic → hyperballistic for non-hermitian coin whereas the first diffusive regime is quelled for implementations using the Hadamard coin. In addition, we observe a robust asymptotic approach to maximal coin-space entanglement.
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