TY  - JOUR
AU  - Perez, A.
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2016//
TI  - Asymptotic properties of the Dirac quantum cellular automaton
T2  - Phys. Rev. A
JO  - Physical Review A
SP  - 012328
EP  - 10pp
VL  - 93
IS  - 1
PB  - Amer Physical Soc
AB  - We show that the Dirac quantum cellular automaton [A. Bisio, G. M. D'Ariano, and A. Tosini, Ann. Phys. (N. Y.) 354, 244 (2015)] shares many properties in common with the discrete-time quantum walk. These similarities can be exploited to study the automaton as a unitary process that takes place at regular time steps on a one-dimensional lattice, in the spirit of general quantum cellular automata. In this way, it becomes an alternative to the quantum walk, with a dispersion relation that can be controlled by a parameter that plays a similar role to the coin angle in the quantum walk. The Dirac Hamiltonian is recovered under a suitable limit. We provide two independent analytical approximations to the long-term probability distribution. It is shown that, starting from localized conditions, the asymptotic value of the entropy of entanglement between internal and motional degrees of freedom overcomes the known limit that is approached by the quantum walk for the same initial conditions and is similar to the ones achieved by highly localized states of the Dirac equation.
SN  - 1050-2947
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.07418
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.93.012328
DO  - 10.1103/PhysRevA.93.012328
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000368291600005
ID  - Perez2016
ER  -