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The Structure of Qubit Unextendible Product Bases

Quantum Physics 2014-10-10 v2

Abstract

Unextendible product bases have been shown to have many important uses in quantum information theory, particularly in the qubit case. However, very little is known about their mathematical structure beyond three qubits. We present several new results about qubit unextendible product bases, including a complete characterization of all four-qubit unextendible product bases, which we show there are exactly 1446 of. We also show that there exist p-qubit UPBs of almost all sizes less than 2p2^p.

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@article{arxiv.1401.7920,
  title  = {The Structure of Qubit Unextendible Product Bases},
  author = {Nathaniel Johnston},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.7920},
  year   = {2014}
}

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20 pages, 3 tables, 7 figures