The Veldkamp space of multiple qubits

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/43/12/125303zbMATH Open1187.83048arXiv0906.3655OpenAlexW1974271883MaRDI QIDQ3558080FDOQ3558080

Authors: Péter Vrana, Péter Lévay 

Publication date: 29 April 2010

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

Abstract: We introduce a point-line incidence geometry in which the commutation relations of the real Pauli group of multiple qubits are fully encoded. Its points are pairs of Pauli operators differing in sign and each line contains three pairwise commuting operators any of which is the product of the other two (up to sign). We study the properties of its Veldkamp space enabling us to identify subsets of operators which are distinguished from the geometric point of view. These are geometric hyperplanes and pairwise intersections thereof. Among the geometric hyperplanes one can find the set of self-dual operators with respect to the Wootters spin-flip operation well-known from studies concerning multiqubit entanglement measures. In the two- and three-qubit cases a class of hyperplanes gives rise to Mermin squares and other generalized quadrangles. In the three-qubit case the hyperplane with points corresponding to the 27 Wootters self-dual operators is just the underlying geometry of the E6(6) symmetric entropy formula describing black holes and strings in five dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.3655

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zbMATH Keywords

black holesoperator algebra methodscommutation relations and statisticsquantum computation and quantum cryptography

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum computation (81P68) Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Black holes (83C57) Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15)

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