Temperature of the three-state quantum walk

TL;DR

This paper investigates the long-term behavior of a three-state quantum walk, focusing on the entanglement between coin and position, and introduces concepts like entanglement temperature in the asymptotic regime.

Contribution

It provides the first calculation of the asymptotic reduced density matrix and entanglement temperature for the three-state quantum walk on an infinite line.

Findings

Derived the asymptotic reduced density matrix of the coin.

Analyzed the entanglement entropy and temperature in the long-term limit.

Showed how the coin-position entanglement evolves asymptotically.

Abstract

Despite the coined quantum walk being a closed quantum system under a unitary evolution, its Hilbert space can be divided in two sub-spaces, which makes it possible for one to analyze one of the subsystems (the coin or the walker) as an open system in contact with a reservoir. In the present work we calculate the asymptotic reduced density matrix of the coin space of the three-state quantum walk in an infinite line, and use that result to analyze the entanglement between the chirality, and position space. We calculate the von Neumann entropy and the entanglement temperature per mean energy of the system in the asymptotic limit.