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'Magic' Configurations of Three-Qubit Observables and Geometric Hyperplanes of the Smallest Split Cayley Hexagon

Mathematical Physics 2012-11-07 v2 Combinatorics math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

Recently Waegell and Aravind [J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 45 (2012), 405301, 13 pages] have given a number of distinct sets of three-qubit observables, each furnishing a proof of the Kochen-Specker theorem. Here it is demonstrated that two of these sets/configurations, namely the 18212318_{2} - 12_{3} and 2414243642_{4}14_{2} - 4_{3}6_{4} ones, can uniquely be extended into geometric hyperplanes of the split Cayley hexagon of order two, namely into those of types V22(37;0,12,15,10){\cal V}_{22}(37; 0, 12, 15, 10) and V4(49;0,0,21,28){\cal V}_{4}(49; 0, 0, 21, 28) in the classification of Frohardt and Johnson [Comm. Algebra 22 (1994), 773-797]. Moreover, employing an automorphism of order seven of the hexagon, six more replicas of either of the two configurations are obtained.

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@article{arxiv.1206.3436,
  title  = {'Magic' Configurations of Three-Qubit Observables and Geometric Hyperplanes of the Smallest Split Cayley Hexagon},
  author = {Metod Saniga and Michel Planat and Petr Pracna and Péter Lévay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.3436},
  year   = {2012}
}