Stabilizer R'enyi Entropy Without a Phase Reference
quant-ph, hep-ph, hep-th
Submitted: 2026-10-13
Updated: 2026-10-13
Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: Stabilizer Rényi entropy quantifies magic relative to a complete Pauli frame.
Abstract
Stabilizer Rényi entropy quantifies magic relative to a complete Pauli frame. In settings such as helicity states of massless particles, unsynchronized qubit registers, energy eigenbases, and systems under superselection rules, the computational basis may be fixed while the transverse Pauli axes remain unspecified. The stabilizer Rényi entropy then depends on the choice of those axes. We define a phase-averaged stabilizer Rényi entropy by averaging the Pauli moments before taking the logarithm. It is exactly invariant under independent local rephasings. For pure states, it vanishes precisely when the state is a stabilizer state in every phase convention. For a broad class of sparse supports, it reduces to a closed-form function of the basis-state probabilities alone. Within this class, the ceiling for n channels is [n cubed/(6n-5)] for n at least3 and 7 over 5 for two channels. We apply the invariant to tree-level gluon scattering at four and five points, where the helicity-basis phases are unspecified. It saturates the two- and three-channel ceilings: 7 over 5 at four points and 27 over 13 in 3 to2 scattering. In same-helicity 2 to3 scattering, it lies between a floor of 8 over 7 and a ceiling of 184 over 125, reached in the resolved soft limit and particular collinear limits, respectively. In every configuration studied, the invariant is independent of the fixed external colors.
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