Hadamard Rigidity of Positive Sojourn Time Distributions for Rotation Coins
Abstract
We study the distribution of the positive sojourn time for a one-dimensional two state quantum walk, conditioned on return to the origin. Konno showed that, for the Hadamard walk, this conditional distribution is exactly uniform at times divisible by $4$. In this paper, we investigate whether this finite time exact uniformity characterizes the Hadamard coin within the family of rotation coins. For a fixed initial state, we prove that the following three conditions are equivalent for rotation coins: the conditional distribution is exactly uniform at time $8$; the conditional distribution is exactly uniform at every time 4m with m≥2; and the coin is the Hadamard coin. Thus, the uniformity phenomenon found by Konno is characterized as a rigidity phenomenon of the Hadamard coin within the rotation coin family. The proof uses a matrix-valued generating function for paths returning to the origin. We analyze the algebraic structure arising from an absorbing process on the half line. Finally, by comparing low degree coefficients at time $8$, we show that exact uniformity forces the rotation coin to be the Hadamard coin.
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BibTeX
@misc{tamura2026hadamard,
title = {{Hadamard Rigidity of Positive Sojourn Time Distributions for Rotation Coins}},
author = {Shunya Tamura and Tomoki Yamagami},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.05033},
eprint = {2609.05033},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.05033},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Hadamard Rigidity of Positive Sojourn Time Distributions for Rotation Coins
AU - Shunya Tamura
AU - Tomoki Yamagami
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/04
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.05033
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.05033
AB - We study the distribution of the positive sojourn time for a one-dimensional two state quantum walk, conditioned on return to the origin. Konno showed that, for the Hadamard walk, this conditional distribution is exactly uniform at times divisible by $4$. In this paper, we investigate whether this finite time exact uniformity characterizes the Hadamard coin within the family of rotation coins. For a fixed initial state, we prove that the following three conditions are equivalent for rotation coins: the conditional distribution is exactly uniform at time $8$; the conditional distribution is exactly uniform at every time 4m with m≥2; and the coin is the Hadamard coin. Thus, the uniformity phenomenon found by Konno is characterized as a rigidity phenomenon of the Hadamard coin within the rotation coin family. The proof uses a matrix-valued generating function for paths returning to the origin. We analyze the algebraic structure arising from an absorbing process on the half line. Finally, by comparing low degree coefficients at time $8$, we show that exact uniformity forces the rotation coin to be the Hadamard coin.
ER -