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Stabilizer entropy of quantum tetrahedra

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-07-04 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum Physics

Abstract

How complex is the structure of quantum geometry? In several approaches, the spacetime atoms are obtained by the SU(2) intertwiner called quantum tetrahedron. The complexity of this construction has a concrete consequence in recent efforts to simulate such models and toward experimental demonstrations of quantum gravity effects. There are, therefore, both a computational and an experimental complexity inherent to this class of models. In this paper, we study this complexity under the lens of stabilizer entropy (SE). We calculate the SE of the gauge-invariant basis states and its average in the SU(2) gauge invariant subspace. We find that the states of definite volume are singled out by the (near) maximal SE and give precise bounds to the verification protocols for experimental demonstrations on available quantum computers.

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@article{arxiv.2402.07843,
  title  = {Stabilizer entropy of quantum tetrahedra},
  author = {Simone Cepollaro and Goffredo Chirco and Gianluca Cuffaro and Gianluca Esposito and Alioscia Hamma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.07843},
  year   = {2024}
}

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8 pages, 3 figures, 9 pages supplementary material