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Kronecker states: a powerful source of multipartite maximally entangled states in quantum information

Quantum Physics 2025-04-24 v1

Abstract

In quantum information theory, maximally entangled states, specifically locally maximally entangled (LME) states, are essential for quantum protocols. While many focus on bipartite entanglement, applications such as quantum error correction and multiparty secret sharing rely on multipartite entanglement. These LME states naturally appear in the invariant subspaces of tensor products of irreducible representations of the symmetric group SnS_n, called Kronecker subspaces, whose dimensions are the Kronecker coefficients. A Kronecker subspace is a space of multipartite LME states that entangle high-dimensional Hilbert spaces. Although these states can be derived from Clebsch-Gordan coefficients of SnS_n, known methods are inefficient even for small nn. A quantum-information-based alternative comes from entanglement concentration protocols, where Kronecker subspaces arise in the isotypic decomposition of multiple copies of entangled states. Closed forms have been found for the multiqubit WW-class states, but not in general. This thesis extends that approach to any multiqubit system. We first propose a graphical construction called W-state Stitching, where multiqubit entangled states are represented as tensor networks built from WW states. By analyzing the isotypic decomposition of copies of these graph states, corresponding graph Kronecker states can be constructed. In particular, graph states of generic multiqubit systems can generate any Kronecker subspace. We explicitly construct bases for three- and four-qubit systems and show that the W-stitching technique also serves as a valuable tool for multiqubit entanglement classification. These results may open new directions in multipartite entanglement resource theories, with bipartite and tripartite WW states as foundational elements, and asymptotic analysis based on Kronecker states.

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@article{arxiv.2504.16256,
  title  = {Kronecker states: a powerful source of multipartite maximally entangled states in quantum information},
  author = {Walther Gonzalez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.16256},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Doctoral thesis, 216 pages