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Wrapped branes as qubits

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum Physics

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.

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@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

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