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quant-ph2011★ 49 cited

An introduction to quantum annealing

Diego de Falco, Dario Tamascelli

Quantum Annealing, or Quantum Stochastic Optimization, is a classical randomized algorithm which provides good heuristics for the solution of hard optimization problems. The algori…

quant-ph2008

Dynamical kickback and non commuting impurities in a spin chain

Diego de Falco, Dario Tamascelli

In an interacting continuous time quantum walk, while the walker (the cursor) is moving on a graph, computational primitives (unitary operators associated with the edges) are appli…

quant-ph2008

Quantum walks: a Markovian perspective

Diego de Falco, Dario Tamascelli

For a continuous-time quantum walk on a line the variance of the position observable grows quadratically in time, whereas, for its classical counterpart on the same graph, it exhib…

quant-ph2006★ 7 cited

Grover's algorithm on a Feynman computer

Diego de Falco, Dario Tamascelli

We present an implementation of Grover's algorithm in the framework of Feynman's cursor model of a quantum computer. The cursor degrees of freedom act as a quantum clocking mechani…

quant-ph2006★ 12 cited

Speed and entropy of an interacting continuous time quantum walk

Diego de Falco, Dario Tamascelli

We present some dynamic and entropic considerations about the evolution of a continuous time quantum walk implementing the clock of an autonomous machine. On a simple model, we stu…

quant-ph2005★ 3 cited

Quantum Timing and Synchronization Problems

Diego de Falco, Dario Tamascelli

Feynman's model of a quantum computer provides an example of a continuous-time quantum walk. Its clocking mechanism is an excitation of a basically linear chain of spins with occas…