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Unextendible maximally entangled bases

Quantum Physics 2009-11-23 v2

Abstract

We introduce the notion of the unextendible maximally entangled basis (UMEB), a set of orthonormal maximally entangled states in d \times d consisting of fewer that d^2 vectors which have no additional maximally entangled vectors orthogonal to all of them. We prove that UMEBs don't not exist for d=2 and give an explicit constructions for a 6-member UMEB with d=3 and a 12-member UMEB with d=4.

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@article{arxiv.0911.4090,
  title  = {Unextendible maximally entangled bases},
  author = {Sergei Bravyi and John A. Smolin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.4090},
  year   = {2009}
}

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3 pages, latex

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