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arXiv:1806.01991

The stabilizer for nnn-qubit symmetric states

Xian Shi

Published Jun 6, 2018• 0 citations
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Abstract

The stabilizer group for an $n$-qubit state $\ketϕ$ is the set of all invertible local operators (ILO) $g=g_1\otimes g_2\otimes \cdots\otimes g_n,$ $ g_i\in \mathcal{GL}(2,\mathbb{C})$ such that $\ketϕ=g\ketϕ.$ Recently, G. Gour $et$ $al.$ \cite{GKW} presented that almost all $n$-qubit state $\ketψ$ own a trivial stabilizer group when $n\ge 5.$ In this article, we consider the case when the stabilizer group of an $n$-qubit symmetric pure state $\ketψ$ is trivial. First we show that the stabilizer group for an n-qubit symmetric pure state $\ketϕ$ is nontrivial when $n\le 4$. Then we present a class of $n$-qubit symmetric states $\ketϕ$ with the trivial stabilizer group. At last, we prove that an $n$-qubit symmetric pure state owns a trivial stabilizer group when its diversity number is bigger than 5, which confirms the main result of \cite{GKW} partly.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.1806.01991

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