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Correspondence between entangled states and entangled bases under local transformations

Quantum Physics 2023-08-28 v2

Abstract

We investigate whether pure entangled states can be associated to a measurement basis in which all vectors are local unitary transformations of the original state. We prove that for bipartite states with a local dimension that is either 2,42, 4 or 88, every state corresponds to a basis. Via numerics we strongly evidence the same conclusion also for two qutrits and three qubits. However, for some states of four qubits we are unable to find a basis, leading us to conjecture that not all quantum states admit a corresponding measurement. Furthermore, we investigate whether there can exist a set of local unitaries that transform \textit{any} state into a basis. While we show that such a state-independent construction cannot exist for general quantum states, we prove that it does exist for real-valued nn-qubit states if and only if n=2,3n=2,3, and that such constructions are impossible for any multipartite system of an odd local dimension. Our results suggest a rich relationship between entangled states and iso-entangled measurements with a strong dependence on both particle numbers and dimension.

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@article{arxiv.2301.13285,
  title  = {Correspondence between entangled states and entangled bases under local transformations},
  author = {Florian Pimpel and Martin J. Renner and Armin Tavakoli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.13285},
  year   = {2023}
}
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