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Systematic construction of multiqubit unextendible product bases
Abstract
The construction of multiqubit unextendible product bases (UPBs) has been a long-standing problem. We give a systematic construction of multiqubit UPBs by studying their unextendible orthogonal matrices (UOMs) with graph-theoretic methods. Row decompositions of small UOMs produce the main intervals. Com- pletion graphs settle the remaining small UPB sizes, except for one size obtained from a good column structure. Nonexistence of the other UPB sizes follows from counts of fibres and row pairs. The computer is used only for a few finite UOM checks, whose exact tests are stated in the certificate appendix. These arguments determine the complete multiqubit UPB size spectrum in every dimension.
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BibTeX
@misc{cheng2026systematic,
title = {{Systematic construction of multiqubit unextendible product bases}},
author = {Caohan Cheng and Lin Chen},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.14788},
eprint = {2609.14788},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14788},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Systematic construction of multiqubit unextendible product bases
AU - Caohan Cheng
AU - Lin Chen
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/13
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.14788
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14788
AB - The construction of multiqubit unextendible product bases (UPBs) has been a long-standing problem. We give a systematic construction of multiqubit UPBs by studying their unextendible orthogonal matrices (UOMs) with graph-theoretic methods. Row decompositions of small UOMs produce the main intervals. Com- pletion graphs settle the remaining small UPB sizes, except for one size obtained from a good column structure. Nonexistence of the other UPB sizes follows from counts of fibres and row pairs. The computer is used only for a few finite UOM checks, whose exact tests are stated in the certificate appendix. These arguments determine the complete multiqubit UPB size spectrum in every dimension.
ER -