Jucys–Murphy elements of partition algebras for the rook monoid

Kudryavtseva and Mazorchuk exhibited Schur–Weyl duality between the rook monoid algebra [Formula: see text] and the subalgebra [Formula: see text] of the partition algebra [Formula: see text] acting on [Formula: see text]. In this paper, we consider a subalgebra [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] such that there is Schur–Weyl duality between the actions of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] on [Formula: see text]. This paper studies the representation theory of partition algebras [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] for rook monoids inductively by considering the multiplicity free tower [Formula: see text] Furthermore, this inductive approach is established as a spectral approach by describing the Jucys–Murphy elements and their actions on the canonical Gelfand–Tsetlin bases, determined by the aforementioned multiplicity free tower, of irreducible representations of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. Also, we describe the Jucys–Murphy elements of [Formula: see text] which play a central role in the demonstration of the actions of Jucys–Murphy elements of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text].

Generating W states with braiding operators

Braiding operators can be used to create entangled states out of product states, thus establishing a correspondence between topological and quantum entanglement. This is well-known for maximally entangled Bell and GHZ states and their equivalent states under Stochastic Local Operations and Classical Communication, but so far a similar result for W states was missing. Here we use generators of extraspecial 2-groups to obtain the W state in a four-qubit space and partition algebras to generate the W state in a three-qubit space. We also present a unitary generalized Yang-Baxter operator that embeds the W_n state in a (2n-1)-qubit space.

Braiding quantum gates from partition algebras

Unitary braiding operators can be used as robust entangling quantum gates. We introduce a solution-generating technique to solve the (d,m,l)-generalized Yang-Baxter equation, for m/2≤l≤m, which allows to systematically construct such braiding operators. This is achieved by using partition algebras, a generalization of the Temperley-Lieb algebra encountered in statistical mechanics. We obtain families of unitary and non-unitary braiding operators that generate the full braid group. Explicit examples are given for a 2-, 3-, and 4-qubit system, including the classification of the entangled states generated by these operators based on Stochastic Local Operations and Classical Communication.

McKay Centralizer Algebras

International audience For a finite subgroup G of the special unitary group SU2, we study the centralizer algebra Zk(G) = EndG(V⊗k) of G acting on the k-fold tensor product of its defining representation V = C2. The McKay corre- spondence relates the representation theory of these groups to an associated affine Dynkin diagram, and we use this connection to study the structure and representation theory of Zk(G) via the combinatorics of the Dynkin diagram. When G equals the binary tetrahedral, octahedral, or icosahedral group, we exhibit remarkable connections between Zk (G) and the Martin-Jones set partition algebras.