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A note on graphs resistant to quantum uniform mixing

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v1

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 nn-cube is instantaneous exactly uniform mixing but has no average mixing property. On complete (circulant) graphs KnK_{n}, the continuous-time quantum walk is neither instantaneous (except for n=2,3,4n=2,3,4) nor average uniform mixing (except for n=2n=2). We explore two natural {\em group-theoretic} generalizations of the nn-cube as a GG-circulant and as a bunkbed G\Int2G \rtimes \Int_{2}, where GG is a finite group. Analyses of these classes suggest that the nn-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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