Local Distinguishability of Generic Unentangled Orthonormal Bases

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVA.93.012330arXiv1502.06639MaRDI QIDQ6259337FDOQ6259337

Authors: Jiri Lebl, Asif Shakeel, Nolan Wallach 

Publication date: 23 February 2015

Abstract: An orthonormal basis consisting of unentangled (pure tensor) elements in a tensor product of Hilbert spaces is an Unentangled Orthogonal Basis (UOB). In general, for $n$ qubits, we prove that in its natural structure as a real variety, the space of UOB is a bouquet of products of Riemann spheres parametrized by a class of edge colorings of hypercubes. Its irreducible components of maximum dimension are products of $2^n-1$ two-spheres. Using a theorem of Walgate and Hardy, we observe that the UOB whose elements are distinguishable by local operations and classical communication (called locally distinguishable or LOCC distinguishable UOB) are exactly those in the maximum dimensional components. Bennett et al, in their in-depth study of quantum nonlocality without entanglement, include a specific 3 qubit example UOB which is not LOCC distinguishable; we construct certain generalized counterparts of this UOB in $n$ qubits.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs (05C15) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40)

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