arXiv:1310.0420 · Scientific Reports

Quantum walks of interacting fermions on a cycle graph

Alexey A. Melnikov, Leonid Evgenevich Fedichkin

Published Sep 29, 2016• 40 citations

Abstract

Quantum walks have been employed widely to develop new tools for quantum information processing recently. A natural quantum walk dynamics of interacting particles can be used to implement efficiently the universal quantum computation. In this work quantum walks of electrons on a graph are studied. The graph is composed of semiconductor quantum dots arranged in a circle. Electrons can tunnel between adjacent dots and interact via Coulomb repulsion, which leads to entanglement. Fermionic entanglement dynamics is obtained and evaluated.

DOI: 10.1038/srep34226

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