`Magic' configurations of three-qubit observables and geometric hyperplanes of the smallest split Cayley hexagon

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2012.083zbMATH Open1271.51004arXiv1206.3436MaRDI QIDQ352392FDOQ352392

Authors: Metod Saniga, Petr Pracna, Péter Lévay, Michel Planat 

Publication date: 4 July 2013

Published in: SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Recently Waegell and Aravind [J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 45 (2012), 405301, 13 pages] have given a number of distinct sets of three-qubit observables, each furnishing a proof of the Kochen-Specker theorem. Here it is demonstrated that two of these sets/configurations, namely the $18_2-12_3$ and $2_{4}14_2-4_3{6}_4$ ones, can uniquely be extended into geometric hyperplanes of the split Cayley hexagon of order two, namely into those of types ${calV}_{22}(37;0,12,15,10)$ and ${calV}_4(49;0,0,21,28)$ in the classification of Frohardt and Johnson [Comm. Algebra 22 (1994), 773-797]. Moreover, employing an automorphism of order seven of the hexagon, six more replicas of either of the two configurations are obtained.

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zbMATH Keywords

`magic' configurations of observablessplit Cayley hexagon of order twothree-qubit Pauli group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of group representations to physics and other areas of science (20C35) Generalized quadrangles and generalized polygons in finite geometry (51E12) Contextuality in quantum theory (81P13) Algebraic systems of matrices (15A30) Groups and algebras in quantum theory (81R99)

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