Yang-Baxter operators need quantum entanglement to distinguish knots

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/49/7/075203zbMATH Open1343.81024arXiv1507.05979OpenAlexW1516642070MaRDI QIDQ2994520FDOQ2994520

Authors: Gorjan Alagic, Michael Jarret, Stephen P. Jordan 

Publication date: 2 August 2016

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Any solution to the Yang-Baxter equation yields a family of representations of braid groups. Under certain conditions, identified by Turaev, the appropriately normalized trace of these representations yields a link invariant. Any Yang-Baxter solution can be interpreted as a two-qudit quantum gate. Here we show that if this gate is non-entangling, then the resulting invariant of knots is trivial. We thus obtain a general connection between topological entanglement and quantum entanglement, as suggested by Kauffman et al.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.05979

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zbMATH Keywords

knot theoryquantum entanglementlink invariants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40)

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