English

Site Recurrence for continuous-time open quantum walks on the line

Quantum Physics 2023-06-01 v1

Abstract

In recent years, several properties and recurrence criteria of discrete-time open quantum walks (OQWs) have been presented. Recently, Pellegrini introduced continuous-time open quantum walks (CTOQWs) as continuous-time natural limits of discrete-time OQWs. In this work, we study semifinite CTOQWs and some of their basic properties concerning statistics, such as transition probabilities and site recurrence. The notion of SJK-recurrence for CTOQWs is introduced, and it is shown to be equivalent to the traditional concept of recurrence. This statistic arises from the definition of δ\delta-skeleton of CTOQWs, which is a dynamic that allows us to obtain a discrete-time OQW in terms of a CTOQW. We present a complete criterion for site recurrence in the case of CTOQW induced by a coin of finite dimension with a set of vertices Z\mathbb{Z} such that its auxiliary Lindblad operator has a single stationary state. Finally, we present a similar criterion that completes the case in which the internal degree of freedom of each site is of dimension 2.

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@article{arxiv.2305.19876,
  title  = {Site Recurrence for continuous-time open quantum walks on the line},
  author = {Newton Loebens},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.19876},
  year   = {2023}
}
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