Many disordered systems show a superdiffusive dynamics, intermediate between the diffusive one, typical of a classical stochastic process, and the so-called ballistic behavior, which is generally expected for the spreading in a quantum process. We have experimentally investigated the superdiffusive behavior of a quantum walk, whose dynamics can be related to energy transport phenomena, with a resolution which is high enough to clearly distinguish between different disorder regimes. By our experimental setup, the region between ballistic and diffusive spreading can be effectively scanned by suitably setting few degrees of freedom and without applying any decoherence to the quantum walk evolution.
A quantum walk in an ordered medium exhibits ballistic propagation. A related process is the driven quantum walk, in which the number of walkers varies along the propagation. In this work, we show that a driven quantum walk of biphoton states in an array of nonlinear waveguides does not propagate ballistically, but instead presents two transport regimes: superballistic and superdiffusive. We also study the effects of off-diagonal and diagonal disorder. In addition to the observation of Anderson localization, both types of disorder lead to the disappearance of the superballistic regime.
Random walks with long-range jumps can drive superdiffusive transport, replacing ordinary diffusion with an effective long-range kinetic operator. Such superdiffusive kinetics is also central to critical phenomena, notably the self-avoiding walk with long-range jump statistics, or Lévy-SAW. This work investigates how the critical behavior is affected when the long-range connectivity itself becomes random. We study self-avoiding walks (SAWs) on a one-dimensional long-range random ring graph, where bonds are independently generated with Bernoulli probability
∼∣i−j∣−(1+σ). We term this walk Sparse-SAW. The same random bonds are responsible for both long-range superdiffusive transport and quenched disorder, with both simultaneously controlled by the single parameter
σ, placing the problem beyond the conventional Harris and Weinrib-Halperin frameworks. Through large-scale Monte Carlo simulations and a Gaussian-truncated field theory, we show that Sparse-SAW belongs to the same universality class as the clean superdiffusive Lévy-SAW. The random bonds generate short-range uncorrelated and long-range correlated mass disorder while simultaneously producing the long-range kinetic operator. Under coarse-graining, the latter dominates, restoring the clean critical behavior. Our study suggests that the full non-Gaussian Bernoulli statistics may lead to disorder physics beyond the conventional theory of quenched disorder, while establishing random graphs as an efficient platform for extracting the critical exponents of the clean superdiffusive Lévy-SAW universality class.