A Class of Three-Qubit Contextual Configurations Located in Fano Pentads

Metod Saniga
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Metod Saniga: Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, SK-05960 Tatranská Lomnica, Slovak Republic

Mathematics, 2021, vol. 9, issue 13, 1-6

Abstract: Given the symplectic polar space of type W ( 5 , 2 ) , let us call a set of five Fano planes sharing pairwise a single point a Fano pentad. Once 63 points of W ( 5 , 2 ) are appropriately labeled by 63 non-trivial three-qubit observables, any such Fano pentad gives rise to a quantum contextual set known as a Mermin pentagram. Here, it is shown that a Fano pentad also hosts another, closely related, contextual set, which features 25 observables and 30 three-element contexts. Out of 25 observables, ten are such that each of them is on six contexts, while each of the remaining 15 observables belongs to two contexts only. Making use of the recent classification of Mermin pentagrams (Saniga et al., Symmetry 12 (2020) 534), it was found that 12,096 such contextual sets comprise 47 distinct types, falling into eight families according to the number ( 3 , 5 , 7 , … , 17 ) of negative contexts.

Keywords: three-qubit symplectic polar space; Fano pentads; contextual sets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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