Ergodicity in discrete-time quantum walks
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| author | Kumar, Kiran Sabri, Mostafa |
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| contents | We undertake a detailed analysis of ergodicity for homogeneous discrete-time quantum walks on the integer lattice. The most significant result of our paper holds in dimension one, and gives a complete equivalence between the absolutely continuous spectrum of the unitary operator encoding the walk, and the equidistribution of its dynamics in position space, which appears for the first time in the context of large-volume quantum ergodicity. In higher dimensions, we give a criterion for full and partial ergodicity in terms of a finer property of the spectrum which we dub ``No Repeating Graphs'', and we distinguish how strongly the equidistribution is taking place (weak convergence vs total variation). Many examples are included to illustrate the criterion and to distinguish between the types of ergodicity. |
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| spellingShingle | Ergodicity in discrete-time quantum walks Kumar, Kiran Sabri, Mostafa Mathematical Physics Spectral Theory We undertake a detailed analysis of ergodicity for homogeneous discrete-time quantum walks on the integer lattice. The most significant result of our paper holds in dimension one, and gives a complete equivalence between the absolutely continuous spectrum of the unitary operator encoding the walk, and the equidistribution of its dynamics in position space, which appears for the first time in the context of large-volume quantum ergodicity. In higher dimensions, we give a criterion for full and partial ergodicity in terms of a finer property of the spectrum which we dub ``No Repeating Graphs'', and we distinguish how strongly the equidistribution is taking place (weak convergence vs total variation). Many examples are included to illustrate the criterion and to distinguish between the types of ergodicity. |
| title | Ergodicity in discrete-time quantum walks |
| topic | Mathematical Physics Spectral Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.16837 |