PIRSA:21040013

Multipartite entanglement: combinatorics, topology, and ... astronomy

Zyczkowski, K. (2021). Multipartite entanglement: combinatorics, topology, and ... astronomy. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/21040013

Zyczkowski, Karol. Multipartite entanglement: combinatorics, topology, and ... astronomy. Perimeter Institute, Apr. 07, 2021, https://pirsa.org/21040013 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:21040013,
            doi = {10.48660/21040013},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/21040013},
            author = {Zyczkowski, Karol},
            keywords = {Quantum Information},
            language = {en},
            title = {Multipartite entanglement: combinatorics, topology, and ... astronomy},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2021},
            month = {apr},
            note = {PIRSA:21040013 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Karol Zyczkowski Jagiellonian University

DOI 10.48660/21040013
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

A brief introduction to entanglement of multipartite pure quantum states will be given. As the Bell states are known to be maximally entangled among all two-qubit quantum states, a natural question arises: What is the most entangled state for the quantum system consisting of N sub-systems with d levels each? The answer depends on the entanglement measure selected, but already for four-qubit system, there is no state which displays maximal entanglement with respect to all three possible splittings of the systems into two pairs of qubits.

To construct strongly entangled multipartite quantum states one can use various mathematical techniques involving combinatorial designs, topological methods related to knot theory or the Majorana (stellar) representation of permutation symmetric quantum states.