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Symmetric joint measurement as a complement to the elegant joint measurement

Ying-Qiu He, Yu-Yan Zhang, Dong Ding, Ting Gao, Feng-Li Yan
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Researchers from China introduced a new two-qubit symmetric joint measurement (SJM) that complements the elegant joint measurement (EJM) by covering concurrence values from 0 to 1/2, bridging product basis measurements (PBM) and EJM. The SJM contrasts with prior work (Phys. Rev. Lett. 126:220401), which spanned concurrence from 1/2 to 1, linking EJM and Bell state measurements (BSM). This creates a complete parameterized framework for two-qubit iso-entangled bases. Unlike EJM’s mirror symmetry, SJM’s basis states exhibit rotational symmetry, as demonstrated in triangular quantum networks where output probabilities show permutation symmetry among three parties. The team extended SJM to multiqubit systems with even qubit counts, suggesting broader applications in scalable quantum protocols and network-based quantum communication. Published February 2026 on arXiv, the study advances joint measurement theory by unifying PBM, EJM, and BSM under a single geometric framework.
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Quantum Physics arXiv:2602.04173 (quant-ph) [Submitted on 4 Feb 2026] Title:Symmetric joint measurement as a complement to the elegant joint measurement Authors:Ying-Qiu He, Yu-Yan Zhang, Dong Ding, Ting Gao, Feng-Li Yan View a PDF of the paper titled Symmetric joint measurement as a complement to the elegant joint measurement, by Ying-Qiu He and 4 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Traditional Bell state measurement (BSM) and product basis measurements (PBM) have been integral to nearly the entire development of quantum computing. Unlike the BSM and the PBM, a recently proposed two-qubit joint measurement called the elegant joint measurement (EJM) exhibits novel tetrahedral symmetry in its single-qubit reduced states. In [Phys.Rev.Lett.126:220401], a parameterized two-qubit iso-entangled basis was proposed, with concurrence between 1/2 and 1, perfectly spanning the original EJM and conventional BSM. We present a two-qubit symmetric joint measurement having concurrence from 0 to 1/2, which is complementary to [Phys.Rev.Lett.126:220401] and contains the PBM and the original EJM. We investigate the symmetry of the current structure and its application in triangular networks. The results indicate that the reduction vectors of the current basis states exhibit rotational symmetry, rather than the aforementioned mirror symmetry; moreover, the output probability distributions of three parties in the network explicitly demonstrate the expected permutation symmetry. Furthermore, we generalize the two-qubit symmetric joint measurement to the multiqubit systems with an even number of qubits. Comments: Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph) Cite as: arXiv:2602.04173 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2602.04173v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.04173 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Ting Gao [view email] [v1] Wed, 4 Feb 2026 03:16:29 UTC (96 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Symmetric joint measurement as a complement to the elegant joint measurement, by Ying-Qiu He and 4 other authorsView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Current browse context: quant-ph new | recent | 2026-02 References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADSGoogle Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) Links to Code Toggle Papers with Code (What is Papers with Code?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)

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