When can perfect state transfer occur?
Combinatorics
2011-01-05 v2 Quantum Physics
Abstract
Let be a graph on vertices with with adjacency matrix and let denote the matrix-valued function . If and are distinct vertices in , we say perfect state transfer from to occurs if there is a time such that . Our chief problem is to characterize the cases where perfect state transfer occurs. We show that if perfect state transfer does occur in a graph, then the spectral radius is an integer or a quadratic irrational; using this we prove that there are only finitely many graphs with perfect state transfer and with maximum valency at most 4K4. We also show that if perfect state transfer from to occurs, then the graphs and are cospectral and any automorphism of that fixes must fix (and conversely).
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@article{arxiv.1011.0231,
title = {When can perfect state transfer occur?},
author = {Chris Godsil},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.0231},
year = {2011}
}
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16 pages