Wednesday, September 11
11:00am – 11:50am
Olin Hall 218
Title: Perfect quantum state transfer and theorem of Joseph-Alfred Serret
Abstract: In this talk we will discuss several mathematical objects and discover the connections between them. Namely, we recast the Serret theorem about a characterization of palindromic continued fractions in the context of polynomial continued fractions. Then, using the relation between symmetric tridiagonal matrices and polynomial continued fractions we give a quick exposition of the mathematical aspect of the perfect quantum state transfer problem.