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Tunable families of multiqubit elegant joint measurements

Jef Pauwels and Nicolas Gisin

Phys. Rev. A - Accepted 21 October, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/z4gv-ppkv

Abstract

We give a closed-form construction of the n-qubit Elegant Joint Measurement (EJM) proposed in [PRL , 190201 (2026)] and show that it is part of a tunable family of measurements with tetrahedrally arranged Bloch vectors. The construction is based on the interference pattern implied by a single phase polynomial built from the elementary symmetric functions. It realises a regular tetrahedral measurement for every n, and the corresponding measurement unitary lies at level n+1 of the Clifford hierarchy. Starting from this measurement, we ask whether the size of the local tetrahedron—and hence the {single-qubit-versus-rest} entanglement of the basis—can be varied while preserving its symmetry. For every even n the answer is yes, and remarkably the size follows the same one-parameter law that governs the known two-qubit family, interpolating down to a 1-uniform basis. For n=3 the EJM is locally isolated, while for odd n≥5 we do not know an analogous closed-form family. We also give an analogous construction, valid for every n≥3, with square local geometry.

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