Spectrum for some Quantum Markov semigroups describing $N$-particle systems evolving under a binary collision mechanism

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the spectrum of quantum Markov semigroups modeling N-particle systems with binary collisions, revealing connections to graph Laplacians and determining the spectral gap for a quantum analog of the classical Kac model.

Contribution

It introduces a novel quantum random walk framework on graphs related to the Kac model and provides a new method for analyzing graph Laplacian spectra.

Findings

Spectrum of the quantum generator is related to the graph Laplacian spectrum.

Exact spectral gap determined for the quantum Kac model.

New method for studying graph Laplacian spectra.

Abstract

We compute the spectrum for a class of quantum Markov semigroups describing systems of $N$ particle interacting through a binary collision mechanism. These quantum Markov semgroups are associated to a novel kind of quantum random walk on graphs, with the graph structure arising naturally in the quantization of the classical Kac model, and we show that the spectrum of the generator of the quantum Markov semigroup is closely related to the spectrum of the Laplacian on the corresponding graph. For the direct analog of the original classical Kac model, we determine the exact spectral gap for the quantum generator. We also give a new and simple method for studying the spectrum of certain graph Laplacians.