In a one-dimensional random walk, a “walker” is confined to a long, narrow path and moves forward or backward in steps according to the results of repeatedly tossing a coin. The walker takes a step in ...

Random walks and percolation theory form a fundamental confluence in modern statistical physics and probability theory. Random walks describe the seemingly erratic movement of particles or entities, ...

Why is it that when you walk randomly, the more you walk, the farther you get from your starting point? The Quanta Newsletter ...

That was the “classical” random walk - which just means when we described it, we did not have to use any quantum mechanics. To describe a “quantum” random walk, we replace our coin with a quantum coin ...