Entanglement and the geometry of two qubits

Charles Tahan, Rusko Ruskov

Oktay K. Pashaev, Aygül Koçak

Yonatan Most, Yishai Shimoni, Ofer Biham

The formation of multipartite quantum entanglement by repeated operation of one- and two-qubit gates is examined. The resulting entanglement is evaluated using two measures: the average bipartite entanglement and the Groverian measure. A comparison is made between two geometries of the quantum register: a one-dimensional chain in which two-qubit gates apply only locally between nearest neighbors and a nonlocal geometry in which such gates may apply between any pair of qubits. More specifically, we use a combination of random single-qubit rotations and a fixed two-qubit gate such as the controlled-phase gate. It is found that in the nonlocal geometry the entanglement is generated at a higher rate. In both geometries, the Groverian measure converges to its asymptotic value more slowly than the average bipartite entanglement. These results are expected to have implications on different proposed geometries of future quantum computers with local and nonlocal interactions between the qubits.

Toshihiro Iwai

It is widely recognized that concurrence can be regarded as a measure of two-qubit entanglement. This paper studies the geometry of concurrence for a two-qubit system to show that the concurrence serves as a coordinate of the factor space , where is the space of normalized two-qubit states, and where G = U (1) × SU (2) × SU (2). Any monotonically increasing function of the concurrence can serve as a measure for entanglement. From the viewpoint of Riemannian geometry, a state with concurrence r is shown to be distant from the separable states by , where r ranges over 0 ⩽ r ⩽ 1. In addition, measures of entanglement for n -qubits are discussed on the basis of a bipartite decomposition with ℓ + m = n . They are invariant under the local unitary transformation group U (2 ℓ ) × U (2 m ).

Т.Э. Кренкель