“…In a context close to the spatial search algorithm, Childs et al [9] showed that the propagation of a particle between a particular pair of nodes is exponentially faster when driven by a continuous-time quantum walk compared to a random walk. There are many papers in the literature addressing this formulation in both the discrete-time [8,10,11,12] and continuous-time [3,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21] cases. Experimental implementations of search algorithms by continuous-time quantum walk are described in [22,23,24,25].…”