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Simplification Rules for Continuous-Time Quantum Walks on Dynamic Graphs

Sep 2026 · 0 citations · 28 references
Physics

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This work gives CTQW realizations of the standard single-qubit gates and introduces new graph rewrite rules, which are graph rewrite rules that shorten a dynamic graph sequence while preserving the unitary it implements.

Abstract

Continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs) on dynamic graphs realize quantum gates as sequences of time-evolving graph Hamiltonians, but naive constructions produce long sequences with redundancy. Simplification rules, which are graph rewrite rules that shorten a dynamic graph sequence while preserving the unitary it implements, are the CTQW analogue of circuit identities in the gate model. In this work, we give CTQW realizations of the standard single-qubit gates and introduce new graph rewrite rules. We demonstrate the simplification rules through worked circuit reductions and outline their use as transpilation primitives for converting between the circuit model and the dynamic graph framework.

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