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  Geometric picture behind quantum expanders

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A $(d,\lambda)$-quantum expander is a distribution $\nu$ over the unitary group $\mathcal{U}(d)$ with the property that: a) $|\mathrm{supp} \ \nu| =d$, b) $\Vert \mathbb{E}_{U \sim \nu} U \otimes U^{\dagger} - \mathbb{E}_{U \sim \mu_H} U \otimes U^{\dagger}\Vert_{\infty} \leq \lambda$, where $\mu_H$ is the Haar measure. If instead of distributions over unitaries we consider distributions over permutation matrices, it's not difficult to see that we recover the usual definition of a $d$-regular expander graph. For more background, see e.g.: Efficient Quantum Tensor Product Expanders and k-designs by Harrow and Low.

My question is - do quantum expanders admit any kind of geometric interpretation similar to classical expanders (where spectral gap $\sim$ isoperimetry/expansion of the underlying graph)? I don't define "geometric realization" formally, but conceptually, one could hope that purely spectral criterion can be translated to some geometric picture (which, in the classical case, is the source of mathematical richness enjoyed by expanders; mathematical structure of quantum expanders seem to be much more limited).

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asked Apr 4, 2012 in Theoretical Physics by Marcin Kotowski (405 points) [ no revision ]

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In the same paper that was linked in the question, the authors mentioned the bounds of the TPEs, in Theorem 1.6: Let $v_C$ be a classical $(N, D, 1- l_C)$ TPE, and for $0<p<1$, define $v_Q = pv_C+ (1-p)\delta_F$. Suppose that $e_A$= $1-2(2k)^4k/\sqrt{N}>0$. Then $v_Q$ is a quantum $(N,D+1, 1-e_Q, k)$ TPE where $e_Q$ is greater than or equal to $e_A/12*\min (pe_C, 1-p)>0$. This bound is optimized when $p= 1/(1+l_C)$ in which case we have $e_Q$ is greater than or equal to $e_A e_C/24$. This means that any constant degree and gap $2k$ classical TPE gives a $k$ quantum TPE, with constant gap. If the classical TPE is efficient then the quantum one is too. From these results, I believe that there is a similar geometric interpretation, except that it is limited when $2k$>N, for the quantum expanders.

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answered Apr 8, 2012 by Jaivir Baweja (40 points) [ no revision ]
I don't see how is this supposed to help.

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