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Perfect state transfer in Grover walks on association schemes and distance-regular graphs

Combinatorics 2025-06-23 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

This paper investigates perfect state transfer in Grover walks, a model of discrete-time quantum walks. We establish a necessary and sufficient condition for the occurrence of perfect state transfer on graphs belonging to an association scheme. Our focus includes specific association schemes, namely the Hamming and Johnson schemes. We characterize all graphs on the classes of Hamming and Johnson schemes that exhibit perfect state transfer. Furthermore, we study perfect state transfer on distance-regular graphs. We provide complete characterizations for exhibiting perfect state transfer on distance-regular graphs of diameter 22 and diameter 33, as well as integral distance-regular graphs.

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@article{arxiv.2506.07439,
  title  = {Perfect state transfer in Grover walks on association schemes and distance-regular graphs},
  author = {Koushik Bhakta and Bikash Bhattacharjya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.07439},
  year   = {2025}
}