Index Theory of Chiral Unitaries and Split-Step Quantum Walks

Building from work by Cedzich et al. and Suzuki et al., we consider topological and index-theoretic properties of chiral unitaries, which are an abstraction of the time evolution of a chiral-symmetric self-adjoint operator. Split-step quantum walks provide a rich class of examples. We use the index...

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Veröffentlicht in:Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Datum:2023
ISSN:1815-0659
1. Verfasser: Bourne, Chris
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Інститут математики НАН України 2023
Online Zugang:https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/211976
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Zitieren:Index Theory of Chiral Unitaries and Split-Step Quantum Walks. Chris Bourne. SIGMA 19 (2023), 053, 39 pages

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Zusammenfassung:Building from work by Cedzich et al. and Suzuki et al., we consider topological and index-theoretic properties of chiral unitaries, which are an abstraction of the time evolution of a chiral-symmetric self-adjoint operator. Split-step quantum walks provide a rich class of examples. We use the index of a pair of projections and the Cayley transform to define topological indices for chiral unitaries on both Hilbert spaces and Hilbert *-modules. In the case of the discrete time evolution of a Hamiltonian-like operator, we relate the index for chiral unitaries to the index of the Hamiltonian. We also prove a double-sided winding number formula for anisotropic split-step quantum walks on Hilbert *-modules, extending a result by Matsuzawa.
ISSN:1815-0659