70 research outputs found
On the geometry of a class of N-qubit entanglement monotones
A family of N-qubit entanglement monotones invariant under stochastic local
operations and classical communication (SLOCC) is defined. This class of
entanglement monotones includes the well-known examples of the concurrence, the
three-tangle, and some of the four, five and N-qubit SLOCC invariants
introduced recently. The construction of these invariants is based on bipartite
partitions of the Hilbert space in the form with . Such partitions can be given
a nice geometrical interpretation in terms of Grassmannians Gr(L,l) of l-planes
in that can be realized as the zero locus of quadratic polinomials
in the complex projective space of suitable dimension via the Plucker
embedding. The invariants are neatly expressed in terms of the Plucker
coordinates of the Grassmannian.Comment: 7 pages RevTex, Submitted to Physical Review
On the geometry of four qubit invariants
The geometry of four-qubit entanglement is investigated. We replace some of
the polynomial invariants for four-qubits introduced recently by new ones of
direct geometrical meaning. It is shown that these invariants describe four
points, six lines and four planes in complex projective space . For
the generic entanglement class of stochastic local operations and classical
communication they take a very simple form related to the elementary symmetric
polynomials in four complex variables. Moreover, their magnitudes are
entanglement monotones that fit nicely into the geometric set of -qubit ones
related to Grassmannians of -planes found recently. We also show that in
terms of these invariants the hyperdeterminant of order 24 in the four-qubit
amplitudes takes a more instructive form than the previously published
expressions available in the literature. Finally in order to understand two,
three and four-qubit entanglement in geometric terms we propose a unified
setting based on furnished with a fixed quadric.Comment: 19 page
The geometry of entanglement: metrics, connections and the geometric phase
Using the natural connection equivalent to the SU(2) Yang-Mills instanton on
the quaternionic Hopf fibration of over the quaternionic projective space
with an fiber the geometry of
entanglement for two qubits is investigated. The relationship between base and
fiber i.e. the twisting of the bundle corresponds to the entanglement of the
qubits. The measure of entanglement can be related to the length of the
shortest geodesic with respect to the Mannoury-Fubini-Study metric on between an arbitrary entangled state, and the separable state nearest to
it. Using this result an interpretation of the standard Schmidt decomposition
in geometric terms is given. Schmidt states are the nearest and furthest
separable ones lying on, or the ones obtained by parallel transport along the
geodesic passing through the entangled state. Some examples showing the
correspondence between the anolonomy of the connection and entanglement via the
geometric phase is shown. Connections with important notions like the
Bures-metric, Uhlmann's connection, the hyperbolic structure for density
matrices and anholonomic quantum computation are also pointed out.Comment: 42 page
The band spectrum of periodic potentials with PT-symmetry
A real band condition is shown to exist for one dimensional periodic complex
non-hermitian potentials exhibiting PT-symmetry. We use an exactly solvable
ultralocal periodic potential to obtain the band structure and discuss some
spectral features of the model, specially those concerning the role of the
imaginary parameters of the couplings. Analytical results as well as some
numerical examples are provided.Comment: 14 pages, 19 included figures (13 coloured). Submitted to J. Phys.
Correlation induced non-Abelian quantum holonomies
In the context of two-particle interferometry, we construct a parallel
transport condition that is based on the maximization of coincidence intensity
with respect to local unitary operations on one of the subsystems. The
dependence on correlation is investigated and it is found that the holonomy
group is generally non-Abelian, but Abelian for uncorrelated systems. It is
found that our framework contains the L\'{e}vay geometric phase [2004 {\it J.
Phys. A: Math. Gen.} {\bf 37} 1821] in the case of two-qubit systems undergoing
local SU(2) evolutions.Comment: Minor corrections; journal reference adde
Reflectionless PT-symmetric potentials in the one-dimensional Dirac equation
We study the one-dimensional Dirac equation with local PT-symmetric
potentials whose discrete eigenfunctions and continuum asymptotic
eigenfunctions are eigenfunctions of the PT operator, too: on these conditions
the bound-state spectra are real and the potentials are reflectionless and
conserve unitarity in the scattering process. Absence of reflection makes it
meaningful to consider also PT-symmetric potentials that do not vanish
asymptotically.Comment: 24 pages, to appear in J. Phys. A : Math. Theor; one acknowledgement
and one reference adde
Invariant and polynomial identities for higher rank matrices
We exhibit explicit expressions, in terms of components, of discriminants,
determinants, characteristic polynomials and polynomial identities for matrices
of higher rank. We define permutation tensors and in term of them we construct
discriminants and the determinant as the discriminant of order , where
is the dimension of the matrix. The characteristic polynomials and the
Cayley--Hamilton theorem for higher rank matrices are obtained there from
Algebraic invariants of five qubits
The Hilbert series of the algebra of polynomial invariants of pure states of
five qubits is obtained, and the simplest invariants are computed.Comment: 4 pages, revtex. Short discussion of quant-ph/0506073 include
Hyperdeterminants as integrable discrete systems
We give the basic definitions and some theoretical results about
hyperdeterminants, introduced by A. Cayley in 1845. We prove integrability
(understood as 4d-consistency) of a nonlinear difference equation defined by
the 2x2x2-hyperdeterminant. This result gives rise to the following hypothesis:
the difference equations defined by hyperdeterminants of any size are
integrable.
We show that this hypothesis already fails in the case of the
2x2x2x2-hyperdeterminant.Comment: Standard LaTeX, 11 pages. v2: corrected a small misprint in the
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