Spectral properties of quantum walks on rooted binary trees

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Abstract: We define coined Quantum Walks on the infinite rooted binary tree given by unitary operators U(C) on an associated infinite dimensional Hilbert space, depending on a unitary coin matrix CinU(3), and study their spectral properties. For circulant unitary coin matrices C, we derive an equation for the Carath'eodory function associated to the spectral measure of a cyclic vector for U(C). This allows us to show that for all circulant unitary coin matrices, the spectrum of the Quantum Walk has no singular continuous component. Furthermore, for coin matrices C which are orthogonal circulant matrices, we show that the spectrum of the Quantum Walk is absolutely continuous, except for four coin matrices for which the spectrum of U(C) is pure point.


A simple or a coined quantum walk is defined as the discrete dynamics of a particle with an internal degree of freedom, referred to as coin state, on a graph. The dynamics of a single quantum walk is the result of the repeated action of the composition of a unitary (coin) matrix on the internal degree of freedom followed by a finite range shift on the graph conditional to the coin state. Here, one constructs quantum walks on rooted binary trees and one examines their spectral properties in the stationary, deterministic and homogeneous framework. More especially, one investigates the spectral properties of the quantum walk when the coin matrix is the element of a set of circulant unitary matrices and one proves the absence of singular continuous spectrum.











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