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arXiv:0704.0507 · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields

E6 and the bipartite entanglement of three qutrits

M. J. Duff, S. Ferrara

Published Dec 19, 2007• 51 citations
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Abstract

Recent investigations have established an analogy between the entropy of four-dimensional supersymmetric black holes in string theory and entanglement in quantum information theory. Examples include: (1) $N=2$ STU black holes and the tripartite entanglement of three qubits (2-state systems), where the common symmetry is $[SL(2){]}^{3}$ and (2) $N=8$ black holes and the tripartite entanglement of seven qubits where the common symmetry is ${E}_{7}\ensuremath{\supset}[SL(2){]}^{7}$. Here we present another example: $N=8$ black holes (or black strings) in five dimensions and the bipartite entanglement of three qutrits (3-state systems), where the common symmetry is ${E}_{6}\ensuremath{\supset}[SL(3){]}^{3}$. Both the black hole (or black string) entropy and the entanglement measure are provided by the Cartan cubic ${E}_{6}$ invariant. Similar analogies exist for magic $N=2$ supergravity black holes in both four and five dimensions.

DOI
10.1103/physrevd.76.124023

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Recently it has been observed that the group E7{E}_{7}E7​ can be used to describe a special type of quantum entanglement of seven qubits partitioned into seven tripartite systems. Here we show that this curious type of entanglement is entirely encoded into the discrete geometry of the Fano plane. We explicitly work out the details concerning a qubit interpretation of the E7{E}_{7}E7​ generators as representatives of tripartite protocols acting on the 56-dimensional representation space. Using these results we extend further the recently studied analogy between quantum information theory and supersymmetric black holes in four-dimensional string theory. We point out that there is a dual relationship between entangled subsystems containing three and four tripartite systems. This relationship is reflected in the structure of the expressions for the black hole entropy in the N=4N=4N=4 and N=2N=2N=2 truncations of the E7(7){E}_{7(7)}E7(7)​ symmetric area form of N=8N=8N=8 supergravity. We conjecture that a similar picture based on other qubit systems might hold for black hole solutions in magic supergravities.
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