Finite geometry behind the Harvey-Chryssanthacopoulos four-qubit magic rectangle

zbMATH Open1263.81011arXiv1204.6229MaRDI QIDQ4903874FDOQ4903874

Authors: Metod Saniga, Michel Planat 

Publication date: 28 January 2013

Abstract: A "magic rectangle" of eleven observables of four qubits, employed by Harvey and Chryssanthacopoulos (2008) to prove the Bell-Kochen-Specker theorem in a 16-dimensional Hilbert space, is given a neat finite-geometrical reinterpretation in terms of the structure of the symplectic polar space $W(7,2)$ of the real four-qubit Pauli group. Each of the four sets of observables of cardinality five represents an elliptic quadric in the three-dimensional projective space of order two (PG$(3,2)$) it spans, whereas the remaining set of cardinality four corresponds to an affine plane of order two. The four ambient PG$(3,2)$s of the quadrics intersect pairwise in a line, the resulting six lines meeting in a point. Projecting the whole configuration from this distinguished point (observable) one gets another, complementary "magic rectangle" of the same qualitative structure.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.6229

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zbMATH Keywords

finite geometryBell-Kochen-Specker theorem``Magic Rectangle of observablesfour-qubit Pauli group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contextuality in quantum theory (81P13)

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