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Majorana representation of quantum states by a constellation of n 'stars' (points on the sphere) can be used to describe any pure state of a simple system of dimension n+1 or a permutation symmetric pure state of a composite system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-30 Wojciech Ganczarek , Marek Kuś , Karol Życzkowski

Majorana stars, the $2S$ spin coherent states that are orthogonal to a spin-$S$ state, offer an elegant method to visualize quantum states. This representation offers deep insights into the structure, symmetries, and entanglement properties…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 L. L. Sanchez-Soto , A. B. Klimov , A. Z. Goldberg , G. Leuchs

Majorana stars, the $2S$ spin coherent states that are orthogonal to a spin-$S$ state, offer an elegant method to visualize quantum states, disclosing their intrinsic symmetries. These states are naturally described by the corresponding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 J. L. Romero , A. B. Klimov , A. Z. Goldberg , G. Leuchs , L. L. Sanchez-Soto

By describing the evolution of a quantum state with the trajectories of the Majorana stars on a Bloch sphere, Majorana's stellar representation provides an intuitive geometric perspective to comprehend a quantum system with high-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Yuguo Su , Fei Yao , Yanming Che , Li-Bin Fu , Xiaoguang Wang

A constellation of $N=d-1$ Majorana stars represents an arbitrary pure quantum state of dimension $d$ or a permutation-symmetric state of a system consisting of $n$ qubits. We generalize the latter construction to represent in a similar way…

We generalize the Majorana stellar representation of spin-$s$ pure states to mixed states, and in general to any hermitian operator, defining a bijective correspondence between three spaces: the spin density-matrices, a projective space of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 E. Serrano-Ensástiga , D. Braun

The Majorana stellar representation translates abstract quantum spin states into intuitive geometric constellations on the Bloch sphere, revealing symmetries, degeneracies, and correlations that traditional algebraic methods often obscure.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Chon-Fai Kam

Permutation-symmetric quantum states appear in a variety of physical situations, and they have been proposed for quantum information tasks. This article builds upon the results of [New J. Phys. 12, 073025 (2010)], where the maximally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-11 Martin Aulbach , Damian Markham , Mio Murao

We discuss how to recognize the constellations seen in the Majorana representation of quantum states. Then we give explicit formulas for the metric and symplectic form on SU(2) orbits containing general number states. Their metric and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Anna Baecklund , Ingemar Bengtsson

As early as 1932, Majorana had proposed that a pure permutation symmetric state of N spin- 1 2 particles can be represented by N spinors, which correspond geometrically to N points on the Bloch sphere. Several decades after its conception,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-14 A. R. Usha Devi , Sudha , A. K. Rajagopal

Even the most classical states are still governed by quantum theory. A number of physical systems can be described by their Majorana constellations of points on the surface of a sphere, where concentrated constellations and highly symmetric…

Pure quantum spin-$s$ states can be represented by $2s$ points on the sphere, as shown by Majorana in 1932 --- the description has proven particularly useful in the study of rotational symmetries of the states, and a host of other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-02 C. Chryssomalakos , E. Guzmán-González , L. Hanotel , E. Serrano-Ensástiga

We report a study of the Majorana geometrical representation of a qutrit, where a pair of points on a unit sphere represents its quantum states. A canonical form for qutrit states is presented, where every state can be obtained from a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Shruti Dogra , Kavita Dorai , Arvind

Majorana Representation (MR) of symmetric $ N $-qubit pure states has been used successfully in entanglement classification. Generalization of this has been a long standing open problem due to the difficulties faced in the construction of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-29 Sakineh Ashourisheikhi , Swarnamala Sirsi

The characterization of quantum polarization of light requires knowledge of all the moments of the Stokes variables, which are appropriately encoded in the multipole expansion of the density matrix. We look into the cumulative distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-29 G. Bjork , A. B. Klimov , P. de la Hoz , M. Grassl , G. Leuchs , L. L. Sanchez-Soto

By the Majorana representation, for any $d > 1$ there is a one-one correspondence between a quantum state of dimension $d$ and $d-1$ qubits represented as $d-1$ points in the Bloch sphere. Using the theory of symmetry class of tensors, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-03 Chi-Kwong Li , Mikio Nakahara

In this paper, using the Majorana method, mathematical modeling of the state of quantum systems with spin number S=j\^h. An expression for the correlation functions of oriented states in the general case j>=0.5 is obtained.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 Farhod Shokir

A relation is established in the present paper between Dicke states in a d-dimensional space and vectors in the representation space of a generalized Weyl-Heisenberg algebra of finite dimension d. This provides a natural way to deal with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Mohammed Daoud , Maurice Robert Kibler

We study the solutions of generic Hamiltonians exhibiting particle-hole mixing. We show that there exists a universal quantity that can describe locally the Majorana nature of a given state. This pseudo-spin like two-component quantity is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-15 Nicholas Sedlmayr , Cristina Bena

In the Majorana or stellar representation of quantum states, an arbitrary (pure) state of a spin-1 system is represented by a pair of points on the unit sphere or, equivalently, by a pair of unit vectors. This paper presents an expression…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 P. K. Aravind
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