The Borromean ring analogy to the GHZ state is due to Aravind. On the same thematic, i.e., that there may be a simple topological analogy to the structure of multipartite entanglement there are a couple of papers by Zapatrin:
http://arXiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0211077 http://arXiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0207058 along different lines from Kauffmann and Lomonaco. scerir wrote: > [scerir] > > As far as I know you can describe certain classes of entanglement > > by means of Borromean rings, which are beautiful and sometimes > > also unpredictable. > > I realize that Kauffman already wrote something ... > http://www.math.uic.edu/~kauffman/QETE.pdf -- Joao Pedro Leao ::: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 1815 Massachussetts Av. , Cambridge MA 02140 Work Phone: (617)-496-7990 extension 124 VoIP Phone: (617)=384-6679 Cell-Phone: (617)-817-1800 ---------------------------------------------- "All generalizations are abusive (specially this one!)" -------------------------------------------------------
