Distinguished three-qubit `magicity' via automorphisms of the split Cayley hexagon

DOI10.1007/S11128-013-0547-3zbMATH Open1270.81048arXiv1212.2729OpenAlexW3101271846MaRDI QIDQ356891FDOQ356891

Authors: Metod Saniga, Frédéric Holweck, Michel Planat 

Publication date: 26 July 2013

Published in: Quantum Information Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Disregarding the identity, the remaining 63 elements of the generalized three-qubit Pauli group are found to contain 12096 distinct copies of Mermin's magic pentagram. Remarkably, 12096 is also the number of automorphisms of the smallest split Cayley hexagon. We give a few solid arguments showing that this may not be a mere coincidence. These arguments are mainly tied to the structure of certain types of geometric hyperplanes of the hexagon. It is further demonstrated that also an (18_{2}, 12_{3})-type of magic configurations, recently proposed by Waegell and Aravind (J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 45 (2012) 405301), seems to be intricately linked with automorphisms of the hexagon. Finally, the entanglement properties exhibited by edges of both pentagrams and these particular Waegell-Aravind configurations are addressed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.2729

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contextuality in quantum theory (81P13) Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45)

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