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Absolutely maximally entangled pure states of multipartite quantum systems

Grzegorz Rajchel-Mieldzio\'c , Rafa{\l} Bistro\'n , Albert Rico , Arul Lakshminarayan , Karol \.Zyczkowski This is my paper

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Absolutely maximally entangled states are surveyed through constructions including GHZ superpositions and orthogonal frequency squares, with analyses of reduced-state entanglement and local unitary classes.

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The paper surveys techniques for generating absolutely maximally entangled pure states of N-party quantum systems. These states are defined by the property that for any bipartition, at least one partial trace is maximally mixed, which produces the strongest possible correlations between subsystems. The authors extend beyond graph and stabilizer constructions with specific contributions: they analyze the entanglement degree in reduced states from AME projectors, examine symmetric superpositions of GHZ states, present an orthogonal frequency square representation of the golden AME state, and update the count of local unitary equivalence classes. This matters because such states enable applications in multi-user teleportation, quantum error correction, and secret sharing.

Core claim

The paper presents an updated survey of techniques to generate absolutely maximally entangled (AME) pure states, including those beyond graph and stabilizer states. It contributes analyses of the degree of entanglement of reduced states obtained by partial trace of AME projectors, states obtained by a symmetric superposition of GHZ states, an orthogonal frequency square representation of the golden AME state, and an updated summary of the number of local unitary equivalence classes.

What carries the argument

Absolutely maximally entangled (AME) states, pure states of N parties such that for every bipartition at least one reduced density matrix is maximally mixed.

If this is right

  • AME states support multi-user teleportation protocols because of their maximal correlations across any subsystems.
  • These states provide resources for quantum error correction codes that protect against arbitrary errors on subsets of parties.
  • Secret sharing schemes can be built using the property that information is distributed such that any proper subset reveals nothing.
  • Reduced-state entanglement analysis reveals how AME states maintain high entanglement even after tracing out some parties.
  • The updated list of local unitary equivalence classes helps classify distinct AME states up to local transformations.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The orthogonal frequency square representation may connect AME states to combinatorial designs that could generate new examples in higher dimensions.
  • Symmetric GHZ superpositions might be generalized to other base states to produce AME states with additional symmetries.
  • Knowing the number of equivalence classes could guide exhaustive searches for AME states when the local dimension and party number are small.
  • These construction methods could be tested numerically for small N and d to check existence where analytic proofs are missing.

Load-bearing premise

The new analyses and constructions correctly produce states that satisfy the AME property of having at least one maximally mixed partial trace for every bipartition.

What would settle it

Explicit computation of all reduced density matrices for one of the constructed states, such as the golden AME state in its orthogonal frequency square form, showing a bipartition where neither partial trace is maximally mixed.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2508.04777 by Albert Rico, Arul Lakshminarayan, Grzegorz Rajchel-Mieldzio\'c, Karol \.Zyczkowski, Rafa{\l} Bistro\'n.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Four party state (5). Three symmetric bi￾partitions: (a) AB|CD, (b) AC|BD, and (c) AD|BC; and their associated marginal states in terms of the ten￾sor U ≡ UAB and its rearrangements, see Eq. 6. Wavy lines represent maximally entangled states between the respective particles. Figure borrowed from [52]. The reduced density matrices ρAB, ρAC and ρBC can be expressed as follows: ρAB = 1 d 2 UABU † AB, ρAC = 1 … view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Exemplary Graeco-Latin square of order three: [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Link structure illustrating 1-resistant 4-party [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Entangling power ep(U) and gate-typicality gt(U) defined in (11a) and (11b) for two subsystems of local dimension: a) d = 2, b) d = 3 and c) d = 4. Shown unitaries of size d 2 enjoy atypically large entan￾gling power. Black stars mark the average values over the Haar measure: e¯p = (d 2 − 1)/(d 2 + 1) and g¯t = 1/2. Panel a) demonstrates that 2-unitary matrices of order d 2 = 4 do not exist as there are no… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Graphs corresponding to AME states of a) two, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: An artistic visualization of the golden state [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: HaPPY code tensor network placed on tiling of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Existence of AME states for different local di [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: The elements of any one of the four OFS written above are colored to reveal the same pattern in all of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: The graphs corresponding to GHZ state of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Graphs corresponding to graph AME(4,3) state. Every edge represents a qutrit CZ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: The graph corresponding to an eight-qubit state [ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: The graph corresponding to the state AME(4,5) from ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Visualization of exemplary solutions of 2-unitary matrices U36 representing non-equivalent states AME(4, 6) – to save the place only a diagonal block of size 12 of each matrix is shown. (a) original golden state [41, 42] obtained by a suitable permutation of block diagonal matrix with 9 blocks of order four (only 3 such blocks are shown here), with three colors representing three different amplitudes, whi… view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Visual representation of the structure of 2-unitary matrices corresponding to four-party non-stabiliser [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Squares of size 4 containing 16 objects with: (a) two features form 2OLS(4) and AME(4,4) state; (b) three features form 3OLS(4); (c) pattern decorating a bag offered to participants of a meeting of American Mathematical Society also implies 3OLS(4) and a state AME(5,4). In parts (b) and (c), three Latin squares are encoded, respectively, in: (1) the rank of the card/orientation of the inset, (2) the suit … view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Graphs that define two LU-equivalent AME(6,2) graph states [ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_17.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Three orthogonal Latin cubes of size four, denoted as 4OLC(4), determine the structure of the AME(6,4) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_18.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Two equivalent ququart graph states, locally equivalent to minimal support AME [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_19.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 20. Figure 20: Graph corresponding to the AME(7, 3) state of seven qutrits contains two double bounds [100, 174] [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_20.png] view at source ↗
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Absolutely maximally entangled (AME) pure states of a system composed of $N$ parties are distinguished by the property that for any splitting at least one partial trace is maximally mixed. Due to maximal possible correlations between any two selected subsystems these states have numerous applications in various fields of quantum information processing including multi-user teleportation, quantum error correction and secret sharing. We present an updated survey of various techniques to generate such strongly entangled states, including those going beyond the standard construction of graph and stabilizer states. Our contribution includes, in particular, analysis of the degree of entanglement of reduced states obtained by partial trace of AME projectors, states obtained by a symmetric superposition of GHZ states, an orthogonal frequency square representation of the "golden" AME state and an updated summary of the number of local unitary equivalence classes.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript surveys techniques for constructing absolutely maximally entangled (AME) pure states of N-party quantum systems, defined by the property that for any bipartition at least one partial trace is maximally mixed. It reviews standard graph and stabilizer constructions and presents new contributions including analysis of entanglement in reduced states obtained by partial trace of AME projectors, states formed by symmetric superpositions of GHZ states, an orthogonal frequency square representation of the 'golden' AME state, and an updated count of local unitary equivalence classes.

Significance. If the new constructions are shown to satisfy the full AME condition, the work provides a useful consolidation of existing methods alongside novel representations that could aid applications in quantum teleportation, error correction, and secret sharing. The updated equivalence class summary offers a current reference point for classification efforts in multipartite entanglement.

major comments (2)
  1. [Section on symmetric superpositions of GHZ states] Section on symmetric superpositions of GHZ states: the manuscript claims these states are AME but the provided analysis appears limited to selected bipartitions. The AME definition requires that for every possible splitting of the N parties at least one reduced state is maximally mixed; an exhaustive verification (or proof that it holds by symmetry) is needed to support this central claim for the new construction.
  2. [Section on orthogonal frequency square representation] Section on orthogonal frequency square representation of the golden AME state: the combinatorial representation is presented as generating an AME state, yet the text does not explicitly compute or prove that every bipartition yields a maximally mixed partial trace. If the verification relies only on equivalence to known AME states without direct check, the claim that this constitutes a new AME-generating technique is not fully load-bearing.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the phrase 'analysis of the degree of entanglement of reduced states obtained by partial trace of AME projectors' should specify whether this applies to general AME projectors or to particular examples, to avoid ambiguity.
  2. [Throughout] Notation: ensure uniform use of d for local dimension and N for number of parties across all sections and figures.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the thorough review and valuable feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment in detail below and will make revisions to improve the clarity and rigor of the new constructions presented.

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  1. Referee: [Section on symmetric superpositions of GHZ states] Section on symmetric superpositions of GHZ states: the manuscript claims these states are AME but the provided analysis appears limited to selected bipartitions. The AME definition requires that for every possible splitting of the N parties at least one reduced state is maximally mixed; an exhaustive verification (or proof that it holds by symmetry) is needed to support this central claim for the new construction.

    Authors: We appreciate the referee's concern regarding the completeness of the verification. In the manuscript, the symmetric superposition of GHZ states is analyzed for several bipartitions, and due to the high symmetry of the construction, the property is expected to hold generally. To strengthen this, we will revise the section to include a symmetry-based proof that demonstrates the AME condition for all bipartitions. This proof will show that the action of the symmetry group ensures equivalent reduced states for all relevant partitions. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Section on orthogonal frequency square representation] Section on orthogonal frequency square representation of the golden AME state: the combinatorial representation is presented as generating an AME state, yet the text does not explicitly compute or prove that every bipartition yields a maximally mixed partial trace. If the verification relies only on equivalence to known AME states without direct check, the claim that this constitutes a new AME-generating technique is not fully load-bearing.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the current text could benefit from more explicit verification. The orthogonal frequency square representation is equivalent to the known golden AME state, which satisfies the AME property by definition. However, to make the claim more robust and to present it as a new generating technique, we will add in the revision a brief direct computation or reference to the verification for the bipartitions, clarifying that the combinatorial object directly encodes the state with the required properties. revision: partial

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No circularity: survey with independent new analyses

full rationale

The paper is an updated survey of AME state constructions drawing on standard literature for definitions and graph/stabilizer methods. New contributions (reduced-state entanglement analysis, symmetric GHZ superpositions, OFS representation of the golden AME state) are presented via direct constructions and calculations that do not reduce to self-citations, fitted parameters, or self-definitions by construction. Any prior author citations support background but are not load-bearing for the novel claims, which remain externally verifiable through explicit state checks. The derivation chain is self-contained.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

As a survey the central claims rest on the standard definition of AME states via partial traces and on the validity of constructions drawn from prior literature; no new free parameters or invented entities are introduced in the abstract.

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  • standard math Standard quantum postulates: pure states, partial trace, and maximal mixedness of reduced density matrices
    Invoked to define the AME property that every relevant partial trace is maximally mixed.

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