Distinguished three-qubit 'magicity' via automorphisms of the split Cayley hexagon
Abstract
Disregarding the identity, the remaining 63 elements of the generalized three-qubit Pauli group are found to contain 12096 distinct copies of Mermin's magic pentagram. Remarkably, 12096 is also the number of automorphisms of the smallest split Cayley hexagon. We give a few solid arguments showing that this may not be a mere coincidence. These arguments are mainly tied to the structure of certain types of geometric hyperplanes of the hexagon. It is further demonstrated that also an (18_{2}, 12_{3})-type of magic configurations, recently proposed by Waegell and Aravind (J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 45 (2012) 405301), seems to be intricately linked with automorphisms of the hexagon. Finally, the entanglement properties exhibited by edges of both pentagrams and these particular Waegell-Aravind configurations are addressed.
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@article{arxiv.1212.2729,
title = {Distinguished three-qubit 'magicity' via automorphisms of the split Cayley hexagon},
author = {Michel Planat and Metod Saniga and Frederic Holweck},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.2729},
year = {2013}
}
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15 pages, 4 figures, 5 tables