Einstein Metrics and Quantum Control on Symmetric Tensor Product Quotients

Abstract

Let $M_n=(\mathrm{PU}(2{)}^n⋊S_n)\backslash \mathrm{PU}(2^n)$ be the space of projective $n$-qubit unitaries modulo local unitaries and permutations of the qubits. We prove that for all sufficiently large $n$ the manifold $M_n$ carries exactly two $\mathrm{PU}(2^n)$-invariant Einstein metrics up to scaling. Both Einstein metrics have uniformly bounded diameter after normalizing two-qubit costs, although approximating a Haar-random unitary requires exponentially many two-qubit gates. In contrast, we construct non-Einstein metrics with nonnegative Ricci curvature and exponentially growing typical control distances, and determine the sharp curvature threshold for this family.

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