Geometry of entangled states, Bloch spheres and Hopf fibrations

Details Geometry of entangled states, Bloch spheres and Hopf fibrations Geometry of entangled states, Bloch spheres and Hopf fibrations

2001-08-30

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0108137v1

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Quantum Physics

submitted to J. Phys. A

Scientific paper

10.1088/0305-4470/34/47/324

We discuss a generalization to 2 qubits of the standard Bloch sphere representation for a single qubit, in the framework of Hopf fibrations of high dimensional spheres by lower dimensional spheres. The single qubit Hilbert space is the 3-dimensional sphere S3. The S2 base space of a suitably oriented S3 Hopf fibration is nothing but the Bloch sphere, while the circular fibres represent the qubit overall phase degree of freedom. For the two qubits case, the Hilbert space is a 7-dimensional sphere S7, which also allows for a Hopf fibration, with S3 fibres and a S4 base. A main striking result is that suitably oriented S7 Hopf fibrations are entanglement sensitive. The relation with the standard Schmidt decomposition is also discussed

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