Department of Mathematical Sciences QIT Thinking Seminar: Harmony Zhan, WPI
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 4:00–4:50 PM
- LocationStratton Hall
- DescriptionDepartment of Mathematical SciencesQIT Thinking SeminarWednesday, September 17th, 20254:00PM-4:50PMStratton Hall 207Speaker: Harmony Zhan, WPITitle: An introduction to continuous-time quantum walksAbstract: A continuous-time quantum walk models the evolution of a quantum system under a time-independent Hamiltonian. We can represent such a system by a graph, where each vertex encodes a qubit, and each edge encodes the interaction between two qubits. This talk introduces continuous-time quantum walks whose Hamiltonians are determined by the adjacency matrices or the Laplacian matrices. We will survey some interesting behaviors of the walk and explain them using the spectral information of the graph.
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