How to construct spin chains with perfect state transfer

L Vinet, A Zhedanov - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and Optical …, 2012 - APS
A method to systematically construct the XX quantum spin chains with nearest-neighbor
interactions that allow perfect state transfer (PST) is shown. Sets of orthogonal polynomials …

Sine-square deformation of solvable spin chains and conformal field theories

H Katsura - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We study solvable spin chains, one-dimensional massless Dirac fermions and conformal
field theories (CFTs) with sine-square deformation (SSD), in which the Hamiltonian density …

Quantum spin chains with fractional revival

VX Genest, L Vinet, A Zhedanov - Annals of Physics, 2016 - Elsevier
A systematic study of fractional revival at two sites in XX quantum spin chains is presented.
Analytic models with this phenomenon are obtained by combining two basic ways of …

Exact ground state of the sine-square deformed XY spin chain

H Katsura - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the sine-square deformed quantum XY chain with open boundary conditions in
which the interaction strength at the position x in the chain of length L is proportional to the …

On a class of q-orthogonal polynomials and the q-Riemann–Hilbert problem

N Joshi, T Lasic Latimer - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We give an explicit solution of aq-Riemann–Hilbert problem that arises in the theory of
orthogonal polynomials, prove that it is unique and deduce several properties. In particular …

Exact fractional revival in spin chains

VX Genest, L Vinet, A Zhedanov - Modern Physics Letters B, 2016 - World Scientific
The occurrence of fractional revival in quantum spin chains is examined. Analytic models
where this phenomenon can be exhibited in exact solutions are provided. It is explained that …

Coherent transport in photonic lattices: a survey of recent analytic results

ÉO Bossé, L Vinet - … . Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and …, 2017 - emis.de
The analytic specifications of photonic lattices with fractional revival (FR) and perfect state
transfer (PST) are reviewed. The approach to their design which is based on orthogonal …

An exactly solvable spin chain related to Hahn polynomials

NI Stoilova, J Van der Jeugt - SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and …, 2011 - emis.de
We study a linear spin chain which was originally introduced by Shi et al.[Phys. Rev. A 71
(2005), 032309, 5 pages], for which the coupling strength contains a parameter α and …

[HTML][HTML] A q-generalization of the para-Racah polynomials

JM Lemay, L Vinet, A Zhedanov - Journal of Mathematical Analysis and …, 2018 - Elsevier
New bispectral orthogonal polynomials are obtained from an unconventional truncation of
the Askey–Wilson polynomials. In the limit q→ 1, they reduce to the para-Racah polynomials …

[HTML][HTML] A classical model for perfect transfer and fractional revival based on q-Racah polynomials

H Schérer, L Vinet, A Zhedanov - Physics Letters A, 2022 - Elsevier
It is shown how choices based on the q-Racah polynomials for the masses and spring
constants along a chain give new systems that exactly allow dispersionless end-to-end …