@article {1213, title = {Spatial search and the Dirac equation}, journal = {Physical Review A}, volume = {70}, year = {2004}, month = {2004/10/19}, abstract = { We consider the problem of searching a d-dimensional lattice of N sites for a single marked location. We present a Hamiltonian that solves this problem in time of order sqrt(N) for d>2 and of order sqrt(N) log(N) in the critical dimension d=2. This improves upon the performance of our previous quantum walk search algorithm (which has a critical dimension of d=4), and matches the performance of a corresponding discrete-time quantum walk algorithm. The improvement uses a lattice version of the Dirac Hamiltonian, and thus requires the introduction of spin (or coin) degrees of freedom. }, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevA.70.042312}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0405120v1}, author = {Andrew M. Childs and Jeffrey Goldstone} }