Perfect state transfer using Markovian quantum walk

Abstract

The quantum Perfect State Transfer (PST) is a fundamental tool of quantum communication in a network. It is not easy to achieve in practice. The original idea of PST depends on the fundamentals of the continuous-time quantum walk. A path graph with at most three vertices allows PST based on continuous-time quantum walk. Based on the Markovian quantum walk, we introduce a significantly powerful method for PST in this article. We establish PST between the extreme vertices of a path graph of arbitrary length. Moreover, any pair of symmetric vertices in a path graph allows PST under Markovian quantum walks. We extend our investigations for the cycle graphs. The cycle graphs with more than $4$ vertices do not allow the PST based on the continuous-time quantum walk. In contrast, a cycle graph with $2m$ vertices exhibits PST based on Markovian quantum walk between the vertices $j$ and $j+m$ for $j=0,1,\dots (m-1)$, where $m>0$ is an integer.