2011/08/27 by A. Romanelli, Alejandro Romanelli, Romanelli, Alejandro
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1108.5730
8 pages, 6 figures
arxiv created 2011/08/27 · openalex publication_date 2011/08/27 · arxiv updated 2011/08/31 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A thermodynamic theory is developed to describe the behavior of the entanglement between the coin and position degrees of freedom of the quantum walk on the line. This theory shows that, in spite of the unitary evolution, a steady state is established after a Markovian transient stage. This study suggests that if a quantum dynamics is developed in a composite Hilbert space (i.e. the tensor product of several sub-spaces) then the behavior of an operator that only belongs to one of the sub-spaces may camouflage the unitary character of the global evolution.