Wrapped branes as qubits
Abstract
Recent work has established a correspondence between the tripartite entanglement measure of three qubits and the macroscopic entropy of the four-dimensional 8-charge STU black hole of supergravity. Here we consider the configurations of intersecting D3-branes, whose wrapping around the six compact dimensions T^6 provides the microscopic string-theoretic interpretation of the charges, and associate the three-qubit basis vectors |ABC>, (A,B,C=0 or 1) with the corresponding 8 wrapping cycles. In particular, we relate a well-known fact of quantum information theory, that the most general real three-qubit state can be parameterized by four real numbers and an angle, to a well-known fact of string theory, that the most general STU black hole can be described by four D3-branes intersecting at an angle.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0802.0840,
title = {Wrapped branes as qubits},
author = {L. Borsten and D. Dahanayake and M. J. Duff and W. Rubens and H. Ebrahim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.0840},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
Version appearing in Phys. Rev. Lett, includes Type IIA description as well as Type IIB