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Perfect state transfer in Grover walks on normal Cayley graphs

Koushik Bhakta

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A Cayley graph $\operatorname{Cay}(Γ,S)$ over a finite group $Γ$ is said to be normal if its connection set $S$ is a union of some conjugacy classes of $Γ$. This paper investigates perfect state transfer in Grover walks on normal Cayley graphs. The Grover walk is a widely studied discrete-time quantum walk. We establish a necessary and sufficient condition for the occurrence of perfect state transfer on normal Cayley graphs. As applications, we derive explicit spectral criteria for perfect state...

Submitted: July 22, 2026Subjects: Quantum Physics; Quantum Computing

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A Cayley graph Cay(Γ,S)\operatorname{Cay}(Γ,S) over a finite group ΓΓ is said to be normal if its connection set SS is a union of some conjugacy classes of ΓΓ. This paper investigates perfect state transfer in Grover walks on normal Cayley graphs. The Grover walk is a widely studied discrete-time quantum walk. We establish a necessary and sufficient condition for the occurrence of perfect state transfer on normal Cayley graphs. As applications, we derive explicit spectral criteria for perfect state transfer on Cayley graphs over abelian groups, dicyclic groups, and dihedral groups. These results yield several infinite families of Cayley graphs exhibiting perfect state transfer. We further obtain simple combinatorial characterizations of the existence of perfect state transfer on Cayley graphs over dihedral and dicyclic groups. Our general characterization also recovers a number of previously known results as special cases. As a further consequence, we obtain a complete characterization of perfect state transfer on unitary Cayley graphs. In particular, we prove that exactly four graphs in the class of unitary Cayley graphs exhibit perfect state transfer.


Source: arXiv:2607.19309v1 - http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19309v1 PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.19309v1 Original Link: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19309v1

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Jul 22, 2026
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Quantum Computing
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Quantum Physics
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