Uniform Mixing in Chiral Quantum Walks

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Auteurs principaux: Levine, Luke, Mesapam, Jessy Jacob, Mustico, Benjamin, Tamon, Christino, Tucker, Gabriel, Zhan, Hanmeng
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author Levine, Luke
Mesapam, Jessy Jacob
Mustico, Benjamin
Tamon, Christino
Tucker, Gabriel
Zhan, Hanmeng
author_facet Levine, Luke
Mesapam, Jessy Jacob
Mustico, Benjamin
Tamon, Christino
Tucker, Gabriel
Zhan, Hanmeng
contents This paper studies uniform mixing in continuous-time quantum walks. We show that for some unitary signing $σ$, the complete graph $K^σ_n$ has probabilistic uniform mixing. In contrast, Ahmadi \etal (2003) proved that no complete graph has uniform mixing except for $K_2$, $K_3$, and $K_4$. Our technique is based on a stopping rule for quantum walks which reduces global to local uniform mixing. As a corollary, we found an orientation of $H(n,4)$ that mixes to uniform faster than any other Hamming graphs, which improves a result of Godsil and Zhan (2019). We also show that there are infinite families of oriented circulants with average uniform mixing. This is a chiral violation of a No-Go theorem due to Godsil (2013) which states that no graph has average uniform mixing except for $K_2$.
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spellingShingle Uniform Mixing in Chiral Quantum Walks
Levine, Luke
Mesapam, Jessy Jacob
Mustico, Benjamin
Tamon, Christino
Tucker, Gabriel
Zhan, Hanmeng
Combinatorics
Quantum Physics
05C50
This paper studies uniform mixing in continuous-time quantum walks. We show that for some unitary signing $σ$, the complete graph $K^σ_n$ has probabilistic uniform mixing. In contrast, Ahmadi \etal (2003) proved that no complete graph has uniform mixing except for $K_2$, $K_3$, and $K_4$. Our technique is based on a stopping rule for quantum walks which reduces global to local uniform mixing. As a corollary, we found an orientation of $H(n,4)$ that mixes to uniform faster than any other Hamming graphs, which improves a result of Godsil and Zhan (2019). We also show that there are infinite families of oriented circulants with average uniform mixing. This is a chiral violation of a No-Go theorem due to Godsil (2013) which states that no graph has average uniform mixing except for $K_2$.
title Uniform Mixing in Chiral Quantum Walks
topic Combinatorics
Quantum Physics
05C50
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04414