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The Majorana's stellar representation, which represents the evolution of a quantum state with the trajectories of the Majorana stars on a Bloch sphere, provides an intuitive way to study a physical system with high dimensional projective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 H. D. Liu , L. B. Fu

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

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

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

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

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

By representing a quantum state and its evolution with the majorana stars on the Bloch sphere, the Majorana representation (MR) provide us an intuitive way to study a physical system with SU(2) symmetry. In this work, based on coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-03 H. D. Liu , L. B. Fu , Xiaoguang Wang

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

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…

The spinor representation of spin-1/2 states can equally well be mapped to a single unit quaternion, yielding a new perspective despite the equivalent mathematics. This paper first demonstrates a useable map that allows Bloch-sphere…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 K. B. Wharton , D. Koch

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

Majorana stars, the antipodal directions associated with the coherent states that are orthogonal to a spin state, provide a visualization and a geometric understanding of the structures of general quantum states. For example, the Berry…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Chon-Fai Kam , Ren-Bao Liu

We show how the Majorana representation can be used to express the pure states of an N-qubit system as points on the Bloch sphere. We compare this geometrical representation of N-qubit states with an alternative one, proposed recently by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 H. Mäkelä , A. Messina

The quest to identify and observe Majorana fermions in physics and condensed-matter systems remains an important challenge. Here, we introduce a qubit (spin-$1/2$) from the occurrence of two delocalized zero-energy Majorana fermions in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Ephraim Bernhardt , Brian Chung Hang Cheung , Karyn Le Hur

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

The properties of the geometric phases between three quantum states are investigated in a high-dimensional Hilbert space using the Majorana representation of symmetric quantum states. We found that the geometric phases between the three…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-18 Shuhei Tamate , Kazuhisa Ogawa , Masao Kitano

By using Majorana's stellar representation, we give a clear geometrical interpretation of the topological phases of inversion-symmetric polymerized models by mapping the Bloch states of multi-band systems to Majorana stars on the Bloch…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-24 Chao Yang , Huaiming Guo , Li-Bin Fu , Shu Chen

In quantum computation and information science, the geometrical representations based on the Bloch sphere representation for transformations of two state systems have been traditionally used. While this representation is very useful for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rahul Bijurkar

In the Majorana representation of a spin 1/2 we find an identity which relates spin-spin correlators to one-particle fermionic correlators. This should be contrasted with the straightforward approach in which two-particle (four-fermion)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Shnirman , Yuriy Makhlin
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