\documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{amsmath,mathrsfs,bbm} \usepackage{amssymb} \textwidth=4.825in \overfullrule=0pt \thispagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \noindent % % {\bf Chris Godsil} % % \medskip \noindent % % {\bf Periodic Graphs} % % \vskip 5mm \noindent % % % % Let $X$ be a graph on $n$ vertices with adjacency matrix $A$ and let $H(t)$ denote the matrix-valued function $\exp(iAt)$. If $u$ and $v$ are distinct vertices in $X$, we say \textsl{perfect state transfer} from $u$ to $v$ occurs if there is a time $\tau$ such that $|H(\tau)_{u,v}|=1$. If $u\in V(X)$ and there is a time $\sigma$ such that $|H(\sigma)_{u,u}|=1$, we say $X$ is \textsl{periodic at $u$} with period $\sigma$. It is not difficult to show that if the ratio of distinct non-zero eigenvalues of $X$ is always rational, then $X$ is periodic. We show that the converse holds, from which it follows that a regular graph is periodic if and only if its eigenvalues are distinct. For a class of graphs $X$ including all vertex-transitive graphs we prove that, if perfect state transfer occurs at time $\tau$, then $H(\tau)$ is a scalar multiple of a permutation matrix of order two with no fixed points. Using certain Hadamard matrices, we construct a new infinite family of graphs on which perfect state transfer occurs. \end{document} .