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Tunable Families of Multiqubit Elegant Joint Measurements

Quantum Physics 2026-07-17 v1

Abstract

We give a closed-form construction of the nn-qubit Elegant Joint Measurement (EJM) proposed in [PRL \textbf{136}, 190201 (2026)] and show that it is part of a tunable family of measurements with tetrahedrally arranged Bloch vectors. The construction is based on the interference pattern implied by a single phase polynomial built from the elementary symmetric functions. It realises a regular tetrahedral measurement for every nn, and the corresponding measurement unitary lies at level n+1n{+}1 of the Clifford hierarchy. Starting from this measurement, we ask whether the size of the local tetrahedron -- and hence the entanglement of the basis -- can be varied while preserving its symmetry. For every even nn the answer is yes, and remarkably the size follows the same one-parameter law that governs the known two-qubit family, interpolating down to a 11-uniform basis. For n=3n=3 the EJM is locally isolated, while for odd n5n\ge5 we do not know an analogous closed-form family. We also give an analogous construction, valid for every n3n \geq3, with square local geometry.

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@article{arxiv.2607.16020,
  title  = {Tunable Families of Multiqubit Elegant Joint Measurements},
  author = {Jef Pauwels and Nicolas Gisin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.16020},
  year   = {2026}
}

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~ 6 + 4 pages, 2 figures, 1 table