In quantum information context, the groups generated by Pauli spin matrices, and Dirac gamma matrices, are known as the single qubit Pauli group P, and two-qubit Pauli group P2, respectively. It has been found [M. Socolovsky, Int. J. Theor. Phys. 43, 1941 (2004)] that the CPT group of the Dirac equation is isomorphic to P. One introduces a two-qubit entangling orthogonal matrix S basically related to the CPT symmetry. With the aid of the two-qubit swap gate, the S matrix allows the generation of the three-qubit real Clifford group and, with the aid of the Toffoli gate, the Weyl group W(E8) is generated (M. Planat, Preprint 0904.3691). In this paper, one derives three-qubit entangling groups ˜ P and ˜ P2, isomorphic to the CPT group P and to the Dirac group P2, that are embedded into W(E8). One discovers a new class of pure theequbit quantum states with no-vanishing concurrence and three-tangle that we name CPT states. States of the GHZ and CPT families encode the new representation of the Dirac group and its CPT subgroup.
The group of automorphisms of Euclidean (embedded in
Rn) dense lattices such as the root lattices
D4 and
E8, the Barnes-Wall lattice
BW16, the unimodular lattice
D12+ and the Leech lattice
Λ24 may be generated by entangled quantum gates of the corresponding dimension. These (real) gates/lattices are useful for quantum error correction: for instance, the two and four-qubit real Clifford groups are the automorphism groups of the lattices
D4 and
BW16, respectively, and the three-qubit real Clifford group is maximal in the Weyl group
W(E8). Technically, the automorphism group
Aut(Λ) of the lattice
Λ is the set of orthogonal matrices
B such that, following the conjugation action by the generating matrix of the lattice, the output matrix is unimodular (of determinant
±1, with integer entries). When the degree
n is equal to the number of basis elements of
Λ, then
Aut(Λ) also acts on basis vectors and is generated with matrices
B such that the sum of squared entries in a row is one, i.e.
B may be seen as a quantum gate. For the dense lattices listed above, maximal multipartite entanglement arises. In particular, one finds a balanced tripartite entanglement in
E8 (the two- and three- tangles have equal magnitude 1/4) and a GHZ type entanglement in BW
16. In this paper, we also investigate the entangled gates from
D12+ and
Λ24, by seeing them as systems coupling a qutrit to two- and three-qubits, respectively. Apart from quantum computing, the work may be related to particle physics in the spirit of \cite{PLS2010}.
Peres/Mermin arguments about no-hidden variables in quantum mechanics are used for displaying a pair (R, S) of entangling Clifford quantum gates, acting on two qubits. From them, a natural unitary representation of Coxeter/Weyl groups W(D5) and W(F4) emerges, which is also reflected into the splitting of the n-qubit Clifford group Cn into dipoles C
±n . The union of the three-qubit real Clifford group C+ 3 and the Toffoli gate ensures a orthogonal representation of the Weyl/Coxeter group W(E8), and of its relatives. Other concepts involved are complex reflection groups, BN pairs, unitary group designs and entangled states of the GHZ family.