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Quantum walks driven by quantum coins with two multiple eigenvalues

Mathematical Physics 2025-12-15 v1 math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

We consider a spectral analysis on the quantum walks on graph G=(V,E)G=(V,E) with the local coin operators {Cu}uV\{C_u\}_{u\in V} and the flip flop shift. The quantum coin operators have commonly two distinct eigenvalues κ,κ\kappa,\kappa' and p=dim(ker(κCu))p=\dim(\ker(\kappa-C_u)) for any uVu\in V with 1pδ(G)1\leq p\leq \delta(G), where δ(G)\delta(G) is the minimum degrees of GG. We show that this quantum walk can be decomposed into a cellular automaton on 2(V;Cp)\ell^2(V;\mathbb{C}^p) whose time evolution is described by a self adjoint operator TT and its remainder. We obtain how the eigenvalues and its eigenspace of TT are lifted up to as those of the original quantum walk. As an application, we express the eigenpolynomial of the Grover walk on Zd\mathbb{Z}^d with the moving shift in the Fourier space.

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@article{arxiv.2110.00716,
  title  = {Quantum walks driven by quantum coins with two multiple eigenvalues},
  author = {Norio Konno and Iwao Sato and Etsuo Segawa and Yutaka Shikano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.00716},
  year   = {2025}
}

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29 pages, 1 figure

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