Quantum contextuality with stabilizer states

DOI10.3390/E15062340zbMATH Open1297.81057arXiv1501.04342OpenAlexW2038129354WikidataQ62045967 ScholiaQ62045967MaRDI QIDQ742771FDOQ742771

Authors: Mark Howard, Eoin Brennan, Jiří Vala 

Publication date: 19 September 2014

Published in: Entropy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Pauli groups are ubiquitous in quantum information theory because of their usefulness in describing quantum states and operations and their readily understood symmetry properties. In addition, the most well-understood quantum error correcting codes -- stabilizer codes -- are built using Pauli operators. The eigenstates of these operators -- stabilizer states -- display a structure (e.g., mutual orthogonality relationships) that has made them useful in examples of multi-qubit non-locality and contextuality. Here, we apply the graph-theoretical contextuality formalism of Cabello, Severini and Winter to sets of stabilizer states, with particular attention to the effect of generalizing two-level qubit systems to odd prime d-level qudit systems. While state-independent contextuality using two-qubit states does not generalize to qudits, we show explicitly how state-dependent contextuality associated with a Bell inequality does generalize. Along the way we note various structural properties of stabilizer states, with respect to their orthogonality relationships, which may be of independent interest.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04342

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zbMATH Keywords

non-localitycontextualitystabilizer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of group representations to physics and other areas of science (20C35) Contextuality in quantum theory (81P13) Quantum coding (general) (81P70) Other types of codes (94B60)

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