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Elfs, transducers and quantum walks

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Electric flow sampling (elfs) is a new tool in the quantum walk toolbox and a useful primitive for solving search, sampling and optimization problems on graphs. We refine this tool by showing that there exists a zero-error transducer for implementing elfs. More broadly, we establish a zero-error transducer for reflecting about the intersection of two subspaces, yielding an errorfree transducer version of the effective gap lemma. Building on this result, we obtain improved quantum walk algorithms for estimating effective resistances and span program witness sizes with an optimal error scaling, and for sampling from the random walk arrival distribution, via the composition of many elfs. Using this last algorithm, we obtain an up-to-quadratic quantum speedup for semi-supervised learning on expander graphs.

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  • Time-Dependent Hamiltonian Simulation with Optimal Query Complexity quant-ph · 2026-08-06 · accept · none · ref 2022 · internal anchor

    For Lipschitz time-dependent Hamiltonians, the new algorithm uses O(alpha T + log(1/epsilon)/log(e + log(1/epsilon)/(alpha T))) HAM-T queries, matching the lower bound for time-independent simulation.