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The Minimum Size of Qubit Unextendible Product Bases

Quantum Physics 2013-11-15 v1

Abstract

We investigate the problem of constructing unextendible product bases in the qubit case - that is, when each local dimension equals 2. The cardinality of the smallest unextendible product basis is known in all qubit cases except when the number of parties is a multiple of 4 greater than 4 itself. We construct small unextendible product bases in all of the remaining open cases, and we use graph theory techniques to produce a computer-assisted proof that our constructions are indeed the smallest possible.

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@article{arxiv.1302.1604,
  title  = {The Minimum Size of Qubit Unextendible Product Bases},
  author = {Nathaniel Johnston},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.1604},
  year   = {2013}
}

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13 pages, 13 figures