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Geometric contextuality from the Maclachlan-Martin Kleinian groups

Quantum Physics 2016-05-18 v3

Abstract

There are contextual sets of multiple qubits whose commutation is parametrized thanks to the coset geometry G\mathcal{G} of a subgroup HH of the two-generator free group G=x,yG=\left\langle x,y\right\rangle. One defines geometric contextuality from the discrepancy between the commutativity of cosets on G\mathcal{G} and that of quantum observables.It is shown in this paper that Kleinian subgroups K=f,gK=\left\langle f,g\right\rangle that are non-compact, arithmetic, and generated by two elliptic isometries ff and gg (the Martin-Maclachlan classification), are appropriate contextuality filters. Standard contextual geometries such as some thin generalized polygons (starting with Mermin's 3×33 \times 3 grid) belong to this frame. The Bianchi groups PSL(2,O_d)PSL(2,O\_d), d{1,3}d \in \{1,3\} defined over the imaginary quadratic field O_d=Q(d)O\_d=\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-d}) play a special role.

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@article{arxiv.1509.02466,
  title  = {Geometric contextuality from the Maclachlan-Martin Kleinian groups},
  author = {Michel Planat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.02466},
  year   = {2016}
}
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