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Perfect quantum state transfer is achievable in different settings, including linear qubit chains, bi-dimensional arrays, ladders, etc. The most studied case contemplates transferring arbitrary one-qubit pure states in systems with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Pablo Serra , Alejandro Ferrón , Omar Osenda

Quantum walks on undirected graphs have been studied using symmetric matrices, such as the adjacency or Laplacian matrix, and many results about perfect state transfer are known. We extend some of those results to oriented graphs. We also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-26 Chris Godsil , Sabrina Lato

A continuous-time quantum walk on a graph $X$ is represented by the complex matrix $\exp (-\mathrm{i} t A)$, where $A$ is the adjacency matrix of $X$ and $t$ is a non-negative time. If the graph models a network of interacting qubits,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Gabriel Coutinho , Chris Godsil

A continuous-time quantum walk is modelled using a graph. In this short paper, we provide lower bounds on the size of a graph that would allow for some quantum phenomena to occur. Among other things, we show that, in the adjacency matrix…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Gabriel Coutinho

A continuous-time quantum walk on a graph $G$ is given by the unitary matrix $U(t) = \exp(-itA)$, where $A$ is the Hermitian adjacency matrix of $G$. We say $G$ has pretty good state transfer between vertices $a$ and $b$ if for any…

The ability to accurately transfer quantum information through networks is an important primitive in distributed quantum systems. While perfect quantum state transfer (PST) can be effected by a single particle undergoing continuous-time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-01 Steven J. Large , Michael S. Underwood , David L. Feder

For a graph $G$ and a related symmetric matrix $M$, the continuous-time quantum walk on $G$ relative to $M$ is defined as the unitary matrix $U(t) = \exp(-itM)$, where $t$ varies over the reals. Perfect state transfer occurs between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-10 R. Alvir , S. Dever , B Lovitz , J. Myer , C. Tamon , Y. Xu , H. Zhan

We establish the theory for pretty good state transfer in discrete-time quantum walks. For a class of walks, we show that pretty good state transfer is characterized by the spectrum of certain Hermitian adjacency matrix of the graph; more…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Ada Chan , Hanmeng Zhan

In this paper, we analyze state transfer in quantum walks by using combinatorial methods. We generalize perfect state transfer in two-reflection discrete-time quantum walks to a notion that we call 'peak state transfer'; we define peak…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Krystal Guo , Vincent Schmeits

We investigate coined quantum walk search and state transfer algorithms, focusing on the complete $M$-partite graph with $N$ vertices in each partition. First, it is shown that by adding a loop to each vertex the search algorithm finds the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-02 Stanislav Skoupy , Martin Stefanak

We introduce and study peak state transfer, a notion of high state transfer in qubit networks modeled by continuous-time quantum walks. Unlike perfect or pretty good state transfer, peak state transfer does not require fidelity arbitrarily…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Gabriel Coutinho , Krystal Guo , Vincent Schmeits

We study perfect state transfer in Grover walks on two important classes of graphs: strongly regular graphs and strongly walk-regular graphs. The latter class is a generalization of the former. We first give a complete classification of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Sho Kubota , Hiroto Sekido , Harunobu Yata , Kiyoto Yoshino

A continuous-time quantum walk on a graph is a matrix-valued function $\exp(-\mathtt{i} At)$ over the reals, where $A$ is the adjacency matrix of the graph. Such a quantum walk has universal perfect state transfer if for all vertices $u,v$,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-20 Erin Connelly , Nathaniel Grammel , Michael Kraut , Luis Serazo , Christino Tamon

We discuss a particular kind of quantum walk on a general graph. We affix two semi-infinite lines to a general finite graph, which we call tails. On the tails, the particle making the walk simply advances one unit at each time step, so that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-15 Edgar Feldman , Mark Hillery

We study a transport phenomenon in certain coined quantum walks where a subspace of states localized at a vertex gets transferred to another vertex. We first develop characterizations for perfect and pretty good subspace state transfer…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Yichi Xu , Hanmeng Zhan

Quantum walks, an important tool in quantum computing, have been very successfully investigated using techniques in algebraic graph theory. We are motivated by the study of state transfer in continuous-time quantum walks, which is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-09 Chris Godsil , Krystal Guo , Mark Kempton , Gabor Lippner

Perfect state transfer and fractional revival can be used to move information between pairs of vertices in a quantum network. While perfect state transfer has received a lot of attention, fractional revival is newer and less studied. One…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Chris Godsil , Xiaohong Zhang

We investigate quantum state transfer on a class of bipartite graphs, namely the butterfly graphs, within the framework of discrete-time quantum walks. These graphs facilitate the construction of scalable quantum networks that enable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Monika Rani , Subhashish Banerjee , Nikhil Swami , Supriyo Dutta

We completely characterize circulant graphs with valency up to $4$ that admit perfect state transfer. Those of valency $3$ do not admit it. On the other hand, circulant graphs with valency $4$ admit perfect state transfer only in two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-08 Sho Kubota , Kiyoto Yoshino

We study a continous-time quantum walk on a path graph. In this paper, we show that, for any odd prime $p$ and positive integer $t$, the path on $2^t p - 1$ vertices admits pretty good state transfer between vertices $a$ and $n+1-a$ for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Gabriel Coutinho , Krystal Guo , Christopher M. van Bommel