Maximally entangled two-qutrit quantum information states and De Gua’s theorem for tetrahedron

Abstract

Geometric relations between separable and entangled two-qubit and two-qutrit quantum information states are studied. For two qubit states a relation between reduced density matrix and the concurrence allows us to characterize entanglement by double area of a parallelogram, expressed by determinant of the complex Hermitian inner product metric. We find similar relation in the case of generic two-qutrit state, where the concurrence is expressed by sum of all 2 × 2 minors of 3 × 3 complex matrix. We show that for maximally entangled two-retrit state this relation is just De Gua’s theorem or a three-dimensional analog of the Pythagorean theorem for triorthogonal tetrahedron areas. Generalizations of our results for arbitrary two-qudit states are discussed © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.