Mathematical Sciences Department QIT Thinking Seminar: Anastasiia Minenkova, University of Hartford

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.