Mean hitting time formula for positive maps

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.10695v2
• Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2022 13:51:27 GMT
• Title: Mean hitting time formula for positive maps
• Authors: C. F. Lardizabal and L. Vel\'azquez
• Abstract summary: We present an analogous construction for the setting of irreducible, positive, trace preserving maps. The problem at hand is motivated by questions on quantum information theory.
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• Abstract: In the classical theory of Markov chains, one may study the mean time to reach some chosen state, and it is well-known that in the irreducible, finite case, such quantity can be calculated in terms of the fundamental matrix of the walk, as stated by the mean hitting time formula. In this work, we present an analogous construction for the setting of irreducible, positive, trace preserving maps. The reasoning on positive maps generalizes recent results given for quantum Markov chains, a class of completely positive maps acting on graphs, presented by S. Gudder. The tools employed in this work are based on a proper choice of block matrices of operators, inspired in part by recent work on Schur functions for closed operators on Banach spaces, due to F.A.Gr\"unbaum and one of the authors. The problem at hand is motivated by questions on quantum information theory, most particularly the study of quantum walks, and provides a basic context on which statistical aspects of quantum evolutions on finite graphs can be expressed in terms of the fundamental matrix, which turns out to be an useful generalized inverse associated with the dynamics. As a consequence of the wide generality of the mean hitting time formula found in this paper, we have obtained extensions of the classical version, either by assuming only the knowledge of the probabilistic distribution for the initial state, or by enlarging the arrival state to a subset of states.

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