A note on graphs resistant to quantum uniform mixing
Abstract
Continuous-time quantum walks on graphs is a generalization of continuous-time Markov chains on discrete structures. Moore and Russell proved that the continuous-time quantum walk on the -cube is instantaneous exactly uniform mixing but has no average mixing property. On complete (circulant) graphs , the continuous-time quantum walk is neither instantaneous (except for ) nor average uniform mixing (except for ). We explore two natural {\em group-theoretic} generalizations of the -cube as a -circulant and as a bunkbed , where is a finite group. Analyses of these classes suggest that the -cube might be special in having instantaneous uniform mixing and that non-uniform average mixing is pervasive, i.e., no memoryless property for the average limiting distribution; an implication of these graphs having zero spectral gap. But on the bunkbeds, we note a memoryless property with respect to the two partitions. We also analyze average mixing on complete paths, where the spectral gaps are nonzero.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0308073,
title = {A note on graphs resistant to quantum uniform mixing},
author = {William Adamczak and Kevin Andrew and Peter Hernberg and Christino Tamon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0308073},
year = {2007}
}
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