Tunable Families of Multiqubit Elegant Joint Measurements
Abstract
We give a closed-form construction of the -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 , and the corresponding measurement unitary lies at level 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 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 -uniform basis. For the EJM is locally isolated, while for odd we do not know an analogous closed-form family. We also give an analogous construction, valid for every , 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