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A Combinatorial Grassmannian Representation of the Magic Three-Qubit Veldkamp Line

Mathematical Physics 2017-10-23 v1 Combinatorics math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

It is demonstrated that the magic three-qubit Veldkamp line occurs naturally within the Veldkamp space of combinatorial Grassmannian of type G2(7)G_2(7), V(G2(7))\mathcal{V}(G_2(7)). The lines of the ambient symplectic polar space are those lines of V(G2(7))\mathcal{V}(G_2(7)) whose cores feature an odd number of points of G2(7)G_2(7). After introducing basic properties of three different types of points and six distinct types of lines of V(G2(7))\mathcal{V}(G_2(7)), we explicitly show the combinatorial Grassmannian composition of the magic Veldkamp line; we first give representatives of points and lines of its core generalized quadrangle GQ(2,2)(2,2), and then additional points and lines of a specific elliptic quadric Q\mathcal{Q}^{-}(5,2), a hyperbolic quadric Q+\mathcal{Q}^{+}(5,2) and a quadratic cone Q^\widehat{\mathcal{Q}}(4,2) that are centered on the GQ(2,2)(2,2). In particular, each point of Q+\mathcal{Q}^{+}(5,2) is represented by a Pasch configuration and its complementary line, the (Schl\"afli) double-six of points in Q\mathcal{Q}^{-}(5,2) comprise six Cayley-Salmon configurations and six Desargues configurations with their complementary points, and the remaining Cayley-Salmon configuration stands for the vertex of Q^\widehat{\mathcal{Q}}(4,2).

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@article{arxiv.1709.02578,
  title  = {A Combinatorial Grassmannian Representation of the Magic Three-Qubit Veldkamp Line},
  author = {Metod Saniga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.02578},
  year   = {2017}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures