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Pretty good state transfer between internal nodes of paths

Quantum Physics 2018-05-23 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

We study a continous-time quantum walk on a path graph. In this paper, we show that, for any odd prime pp and positive integer tt, the path on 2tp12^t p - 1 vertices admits pretty good state transfer between vertices aa and n+1an+1-a for each aa that is a multiple of 2t12^{t-1} with respect to the quantum walk model determined by the XY-Hamiltonian. This gives the first examples of pretty good state transfer occurring between internal vertices on a path, when it does not occur between the extremal vertices.

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@article{arxiv.1611.09836,
  title  = {Pretty good state transfer between internal nodes of paths},
  author = {Gabriel Coutinho and Krystal Guo and Christopher M. van Bommel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.09836},
  year   = {2018}
}
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