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Quantum walks and elliptic integrals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2010

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

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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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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