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01-08-2023
Hitting time expressions for quantum channels: beyond the irreducible case and applications to unitary walks
Published in: Quantum Information Processing | Issue 8/2023
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Abstract
In this work we make use of generalized inverses associated with quantum channels acting on finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces, so that one may calculate the mean hitting time for a particle to reach a chosen goal subspace. The questions studied in this work are motivated by recent results on quantum dynamics on graphs, most particularly quantum Markov chains. We focus on describing how generalized inverses and hitting times can be obtained, with the main novelties of this work with respect to previous ones being that (a) we are able to weaken the notion of irreducibility, so that reducible examples can be considered as well, and (b) one may consider arbitrary arrival subspaces for general positive, trace-preserving maps. Natural examples of reducible maps are given by unitary quantum walks. We also take the opportunity to explain how a more specific inverse, namely the group inverse, appears in our context, in connection with matrix algebraic constructions which may be of independent interest.