Controversy of quantum congestion in two-particle quantum walks

Abstract

The article deals with one- and two-particle quantum walks on a graph with Braess-like topology and analyzes the issue of network congestion in the quantum world. Our approach to the study of congestion in quantum networks is based on the comparison of the evolution of bosonic and fermionic many-particle states. We consider a simple example of non-interacting particles, where one can expect the appearance of congestion in the fermion case due to the Pauli principle. It is shown that dependence of the transport efficiency on the parameters of quantum graph is similar in the bosonic and fermionic cases.