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Entangling characterization of (SWAP)1/m and Controlled unitary gates

Quantum Physics 2009-11-13 v2

Abstract

We study the entangling power and perfect entangler nature of (SWAP)1/m, for m>=1, and controlled unitary (CU) gates. It is shown that (SWAP)1/2 is the only perfect entangler in the family. On the other hand, a subset of CU which is locally equivalent to CNOT is identified. It is shown that the subset, which is a perfect entangler, must necessarily possess the maximum entangling power.

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@article{arxiv.0808.1649,
  title  = {Entangling characterization of (SWAP)1/m and Controlled unitary gates},
  author = {S. Balakrishnan and R. Sankaranarayanan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.1649},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

12 pages, 1 figure, One more paragraph added in Introduction