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View SchemaKrawtchouk matrices from classical and quantum random walks
| Authors | Philip Feinsilver, Jerzy Kocik |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0702173 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0702173 |
| Journal | Contemporary Mathematics, Volume 287 (2001) 83-96 |
Abstract
Krawtchouk's polynomials occur classically as orthogonal polynomials with respect to the binomial distribution. They may be also expressed in the form of matrices, that emerge as arrays of the values that the polynomials take. The algebraic properties of these matrices provide a very interesting and accessible example in the approach to probability theory known as quantum probability. First it is noted how the Krawtchouk matrices are connected to the classical symmetric Bernoulli random walk. And we show how to derive Krawtchouk matrices in the quantum probability context via tensor powers of the elementary Hadamard matrix. Then connections with the classical situation are shown by calculating expectation values in the quantum case.
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