Emergence of drifted diffusion in quantum walks with subspace restart
arXiv:2607.12727
2026
Dynamics
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The paper introduces subspace restart: periodically reset only internal quantum degrees of freedom while preserving the spatial state, thereby suppressing long-range interference without erasing the trajectory. Its transferable mechanism is a controllable crossover from ballistic, correlation-dominated propagation to drifted diffusion, with the restart period setting the effective correlation length. A neural analogue is a recurrent or state-space architecture with a persistent slow state and a periodically reset fast state, potentially improving long-horizon stability while retaining directional memory.
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2026
Split a recurrent or state-space model into a persistent slow state and a fast internal state. Every r recurrent steps, preserve the slow state but reset or contract the fast state toward a learned reference, reproducing selective restart rather than a destructive global reset. The expected benefit is suppression of long-range oscillatory and error correlations while retaining trajectory-level information.
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