Uniform Mixing in Chiral Quantum Walks

Abstract

This paper studies uniform mixing in continuous-time quantum walks. We show that for some unitary signing $\ddot{I}ƒ$, the complete graph $K^{\ddot{I}}{ƒ}_n$ 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 $K_2$.

15 pages, 5 figures. Fixed typos, added missing assumptions and reference