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摘要:The present paper treats the period T N of the Hadamard walk on a cycle C N with N vertices. Dukes (2014) considered the periodicity of more general quantum walks on C N and showed T 2=2, T 4=8, T 8=24 for the Hadamard walk case. We prove that the Hadamard walk does not have any period except for his case, i.e., N = 2,4,8. Our method is based on a path counting and cyclotomic polynomials which is different from his approach based on the property of eigenvalues for unitary matrix that determines the evolution of the walk.