'Magic' Configurations of Three-Qubit Observables and Geometric Hyperplanes of the Smallest Split Cayley Hexagon
Mathematical Physics
2012-11-07 v2 Combinatorics
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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 and ones, can uniquely be extended into geometric hyperplanes of the split Cayley hexagon of order two, namely into those of types and 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}
}