arXiv:1211.0505 · Quantum Information and Computation

Perfect state transfer on signed graphs

John Brown, Chris D. Godsil, Devlin Mallory, Abigail Raz, Christino Tamon

Published May 1, 2013• 10 citations

Abstract

We study perfect state transfer of quantum walks on signed graphs. Our aim is to show that negative edges are useful for perfect state transfer. First, we show that the signed join of a negative $2$-clique with any positive $(n,3)$-regular graph has perfect state transfer even if the unsigned join does not. Curiously, the perfect state transfer time improves as $n$ increases. Next, we prove that a signed complete graph has perfect state transfer if its positive subgraph is a regular graph with perfect state transfer and its negative subgraph is periodic. This shows that signing is useful for creating perfect state transfer since no complete graph (except for the $2$-clique) has perfect state transfer. Also, we show that the double-cover of a signed graph has perfect state transfer if the positive subgraph has perfect state transfer and the negative subgraph is periodic.Here, signing is useful for constructing unsigned graphs with perfect state transfer. Finally, we study perfect state transfer on a family of signed graphs called the exterior powers which is derived from a many-fermion quantum walk on graphs.

DOI: 10.26421/qic13.5-6-10

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arXiv:1211.0505 · Quantum Information and Computation

Perfect state transfer on signed graphs

John Brown, Chris D. Godsil, Devlin Mallory, Abigail Raz, Christino Tamon

Published May 1, 2013• 10 citations

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Abstract

We study perfect state transfer of quantum walks on signed graphs. Our aim is to show that negative edges are useful for perfect state transfer. First, we show that the signed join of a negative

2

-clique with any positive

(n,3)

-regular graph has perfect state transfer even if the unsigned join does not. Curiously, the perfect state transfer time improves as

n

increases. Next, we prove that a signed complete graph has perfect state transfer if its positive subgraph is a regular graph with perfect state transfer and its negative subgraph is periodic. This shows that signing is useful for creating perfect state transfer since no complete graph (except for the

2

-clique) has perfect state transfer. Also, we show that the double-cover of a signed graph has perfect state transfer if the positive subgraph has perfect state transfer and the negative subgraph is periodic.Here, signing is useful for constructing unsigned graphs with perfect state transfer. Finally, we study perfect state transfer on a family of signed graphs called the exterior powers which is derived from a many-fermion quantum walk on graphs.

DOI: 10.26421/qic13.5-6-10

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We study perfect state transfer of quantum walks on signed graphs. Our aim is to show that negative edges are useful for perfect state transfer. First, we show that the signed join of a negative

2

-clique with any positive

(n,3)

-regular graph has perfect state transfer even if the unsigned join does not. Curiously, the perfect state transfer time improves as

n

2

K_n

does not exhibit PST for

n\geq4

, whereas a suitable partial join of

K_n

exhibits PST when

n=2^m

m\geq2

. Hence, these results extend the class of graph families admitting PST in shunt-decomposition-based quantum walks and provide a unified framework for studying quantum state transfer in graph joins, products, and covers.

We study the existence of quantum state transfer in

\mathcal{Q}

-graphs in this paper. The

\mathcal{Q}

-graph of a graph

G

, denoted by

\mathcal{Q}(G)

, is the graph derived from

G

by plugging a new vertex to each edge of

G

and joining two new vertices which lie on adjacent edges of

G

by an edge. We show that, if all eigenvalues of a regular graph

G

are integers, then its

\mathcal{Q}

-graph

\mathcal{Q}(G)

has no perfect state transfer. In contrast, we also prove that the

\mathcal{Q}

-graph of a regular graph has pretty good state transfer under some mild conditions. Finally, applying the obtained results, we also exhibit many new families of

\mathcal{Q}

-graphs having no perfect state transfer, but admitting pretty good state transfer.

Given a graph with Hermitian adjacency matrix

H

, perfect state transfer occurs from vertex

a

to vertex

b

if the

(b,a)

-entry of the unitary matrix

\exp(-iHt)

has unit magnitude for some time

t

. This phenomenon is relevant for information transmission in quantum spin networks and is known to be monogamous under real symmetric matrices. We prove the following results: 1. For oriented graphs (whose nonzero weights are

\pm i

), the oriented

3

-cycle and the oriented edge are the only graphs where perfect state transfer occurs between every pair of vertices. This settles a conjecture of Cameron et al. On the other hand, we construct an infinite family of oriented graphs with perfect state transfer between any pair of vertices on a subset of size four. 2. There are infinite families of Hermitian graphs with one-way perfect state transfer, where perfect state transfer occurs without periodicity. In contrast, perfect state transfer implies periodicity whenever the adjacency matrix has algebraic entries (as shown by Godsil). 3. There are infinite families with non-monogamous pretty good state transfer in rooted graph products. In particular, we generalize known results on double stars (due to Fan and Godsil) and on paths with loops (due to Kempton, Lippner and Yau). The latter extends the experimental observation of quantum transport (made by Zimborás et al.) and shows non-monogamous pretty good state transfer can occur amongst distant vertices.