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The structure of superqubit states

Quantum Physics 2016-02-02 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP Representation Theory

Abstract

Superqubits provide a supersymmetric generalisation of the conventional qubit in quantum information theory. After a review of their current status, we address the problem of generating entangled states. We introduce the global unitary supergroup UOSp((3n+1)/2(3n1)/2)\text{UOSp}((3^n+1)/2 | (3^n-1)/2) for an nn-superqubit system, which contains as a subgroup the local unitary supergroup [UOSp(21)]n[\text{UOSp}(2|1)]^n. While for 4>n>14>n>1 the bosonic subgroup in UOSp((3n+1)/2(3n1)/2)\text{UOSp}((3^n+1)/2 | (3^n-1)/2) does not contain the standard global unitary group SU(2n)\text{SU}(2^n), it does have an USp(2n)SU(2n)\text{USp}(2^n)\subset\text{SU}(2^n) subgroup which acts transitively on the nn-qubit subspace, as required for consistency with the conventional multi-qubit framework. For two superqubits the UOSp(54)\text{UOSp}(5|4) action is used to generate entangled states from the "bosonic" separable state 00|00\rangle.

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@article{arxiv.1411.7311,
  title  = {The structure of superqubit states},
  author = {L. Borsten and K. Brádler and M. J. Duff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.7311},
  year   = {2016}
}

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12 pages, updated to match published version. RIVISTA DEL NUOVO CIMENTO, 38, 2015, Imperial/TP/2014/mjd/04

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