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Coherent dynamics on hierarchical systems

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-11 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We study the coherent transport modeled by continuous-time quantum walks, focussing on hierarchical structures. For these we use Husimi cacti, lattices dual to the dendrimers. We find that the transport depends strongly on the initial site of the excitation. For systems of sizes N21N\le21, we find that processes which start at central sites are nearly recurrent. Furthermore, we compare the classical limiting probability distribution to the long time average of the quantum mechanical transition probability which shows characteristic patterns. We succeed in finding a good lower bound for the (space) average of the quantum mechanical probability to be still or again at the initial site.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0610686,
  title  = {Coherent dynamics on hierarchical systems},
  author = {Alexander Blumen and Veronika Bierbaum and Oliver Muelken},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0610686},
  year   = {2009}
}

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7 pages, 5 figures