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Quantum walks and elliptic integrals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2010

NORIO KONNO
NORIO KONNO*
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Department of Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National University, Hodogaya, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan Email: konno@ynu.ac.jp
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Abstract

Pólya showed in his 1921 paper that the generating function of the return probability for a two-dimensional random walk can be written in terms of an elliptic integral. In this paper we present a similar expression for a one-dimensional quantum walk.

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Mathematical Structures in Computer Science , Volume 20 , Special Issue 6: Quantum Algorithms , December 2010 , pp. 1091 - 1098
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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