Evaluation of the performance of two state-transfer Hamiltonians in the   presence of static disorder
  We analyse the performance of two quantum-state-transfer Hamiltonians in the presence of diagonal and off-diagonal disorder, and in terms of different measures. The first Hamiltonian pertains to a fully-engineered chain and the second to a chain with modified boundary couplings. The task is to find which Hamiltonian is the most robust to given levels of disorder and irrespective of the input state. In this respect, it is shown that the performance of the two protocols are approximately equivalent. 
Alexander K. Pavlis, Georgios M. Nikolopoulos and Peter Lambropoulos
quant-ph