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Quantum expanders from any classical Cayley graph expander

Quantum Physics 2008-06-15 v2

Abstract

We give a simple recipe for translating walks on Cayley graphs of a group G into a quantum operation on any irrep of G. Most properties of the classical walk carry over to the quantum operation: degree becomes the number of Kraus operators, the spectral gap becomes the gap of the quantum operation (viewed as a linear map on density matrices), and the quantum operation is efficient whenever the classical walk and the quantum Fourier transform on G are efficient. This means that using classical constant-degree constant-gap families of Cayley expander graphs on e.g. the symmetric group, we can construct efficient families of quantum expanders.

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@article{arxiv.0709.1142,
  title  = {Quantum expanders from any classical Cayley graph expander},
  author = {Aram W. Harrow},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.1142},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

5 pages, constant gap. v2. Removed mistaken claim about QSZK. Added references including arXiv:0710.0651

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