Clifford Invariants and Three-Copy Quantum Tests
Abstract
We give an explicit treatment of the third tensor power of the Clifford representation on n qutrits, for n≥2. This representation has five pairwise inequivalent irreducible constituents, with multiplicities $1,1,1,1,2$. The decomposition reduces the Clifford twirl of a tensor cube to four real parameters. Two of them are spectral moments of the input. The other two are cubic invariants expressed as sums of cubes of the Weyl characteristic function and the discrete Wigner function. On trace-one Hermitian matrices, the invariant polynomials of degree at most three are spanned by the constant function and four algebraically independent functions. These functions do not separate Clifford orbits. For pure inputs a single parameter suffices. We recover its range and the characterization of its maximum by stabilizer states. We bound the stabilizer fidelity, determine full separability across the three copies in the symmetric family, and recover the criterion for a complex projective $3$-design. We classify the jointly invariant quantum Boolean functions. For stabilizer testing and for testing unknown observables we give explicit bounds on copies and queries. We also give character formulas for the finite projective Clifford groups and record the complete character table for two qutrits.
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BibTeX
@misc{fan2026clifford,
title = {{Clifford Invariants and Three-Copy Quantum Tests}},
author = {Xingya Fan and Yongzhi Luan},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.14758},
eprint = {2610.14758},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.14758},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Clifford Invariants and Three-Copy Quantum Tests
AU - Xingya Fan
AU - Yongzhi Luan
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/10
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.14758
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.14758
AB - We give an explicit treatment of the third tensor power of the Clifford representation on n qutrits, for n≥2. This representation has five pairwise inequivalent irreducible constituents, with multiplicities $1,1,1,1,2$. The decomposition reduces the Clifford twirl of a tensor cube to four real parameters. Two of them are spectral moments of the input. The other two are cubic invariants expressed as sums of cubes of the Weyl characteristic function and the discrete Wigner function. On trace-one Hermitian matrices, the invariant polynomials of degree at most three are spanned by the constant function and four algebraically independent functions. These functions do not separate Clifford orbits. For pure inputs a single parameter suffices. We recover its range and the characterization of its maximum by stabilizer states. We bound the stabilizer fidelity, determine full separability across the three copies in the symmetric family, and recover the criterion for a complex projective $3$-design. We classify the jointly invariant quantum Boolean functions. For stabilizer testing and for testing unknown observables we give explicit bounds on copies and queries. We also give character formulas for the finite projective Clifford groups and record the complete character table for two qutrits.
ER -