Flux control of measurement back-action and Leggett-Garg correlations in chiral quantum walks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12519v1
• Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:51:37 GMT
• Title: Flux control of measurement back-action and Leggett-Garg correlations in chiral quantum walks
• Abstract summary: We find a graph-independent sufficient mechanism for saturating the Lders bound.<n>Across the cycles examined, flux can either enhance the maximal Leggett--Garg violation or shift strong violations to earlier measurement times.<n>These results establish gauge-invariant flux as a resource for engineering local measurement back-action and temporal quantum correlations.
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• Abstract: Gauge-invariant fluxes control interference in chiral continuous-time quantum walks. We investigate how they affect sequential measurements at a single vertex, using a dichotomic observable that distinguishes return to that vertex from occupation of its complement. For a walker initially localized at the measured vertex, the complete two-time statistics, including measurement back-action and Leggett--Garg correlators, are determined exactly by the return amplitude, connecting temporal correlations to the local spectral measure and gauge-invariant closed-walk interference. At short times, the leading disturbance is independent of the Peierls phases, whereas flux sensitivity enters at higher orders through interference among closed walks. We further identify a graph-independent sufficient mechanism for saturating the Lüders bound: flux can reduce the rooted dynamics to a balanced two-dimensional Krylov subspace with equal spectral weights, yielding a constructive flux-engineering criterion for attaining the Lüders bound of $3/2$ at finite times. The mechanism is realized exactly on a two-flux diamond graph, where destructive interference renders additional rooted modes dark and the local back-action depends on relative combinations of the two independent fluxes. For flux-threaded cycles, an exact winding-number expansion reveals a parity-dependent onset: the leading flux contrast occurs generically at order $t^N$ for even cycles and $t^{2N}$ for odd cycles. Across the cycles examined, flux can either enhance the maximal Leggett--Garg violation or shift strong violations to earlier measurement times, with half flux driving the four-site cycle to the Lüders bound. These results establish gauge-invariant flux as a resource for engineering local measurement back-action and temporal quantum correlations.

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