Perfect state transfer in products and covers of graphs
Combinatorics
2018-05-24 v3 Quantum Physics
Abstract
A continuous-time quantum walk on a graph is represented by the complex matrix , where is the adjacency matrix of and is a non-negative time. If the graph models a network of interacting qubits, transfer of state among such qubits throughout time can be formalized as the action of the continuous-time quantum walk operator in the characteristic vectors of the vertices. Here we are concerned with the problem of determining which graphs admit a perfect transfer of state. More specifically, we will study graphs whose adjacency matrix is a sum of tensor products of -matrices, focusing on the case where a graph is the tensor product of two other graphs. As a result, we will construct many new examples of perfect state transfer.
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@article{arxiv.1501.04396,
title = {Perfect state transfer in products and covers of graphs},
author = {Gabriel Coutinho and Chris Godsil},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.04396},
year = {2018}
}
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15 pages