Geometry of the three-qubit state, entanglement and division algebras

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DOI10.1088/0305-4470/36/30/309zbMATH Open1044.81020arXivquant-ph/0302081OpenAlexW2000613550MaRDI QIDQ4451138FDOQ4451138


Authors: B. Andrei Bernevig, Handong Chen Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 23 February 2004

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

Abstract: We present a generalization to 3-qubits of the standard Bloch sphere representation for a single qubit and of the 7-dimensional sphere representation for 2 qubits presented in Mosseri {it et al.}cite{Mosseri2001}. The Hilbert space of the 3-qubit system is the 15-dimensional sphere S15, which allows for a natural (last) Hopf fibration with S8 as base and S7 as fiber. A striking feature is, as in the case of 1 and 2 qubits, that the map is entanglement sensitive, and the two distinct ways of un-entangling 3 qubits are naturally related to the Hopf map. We define a quantity that measures the degree of entanglement of the 3-qubit state. Conjectures on the possibility to generalize the construction for higher qubit states are also discussed.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0302081




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