01165nas a2200109   4500008004300000245005900043210005900102520081400161100002200975700002200997856003601019       2006                        en_Ud  00aReflection symmetries for multiqubit density operators0 aReflection symmetries for multiqubit density operators3 aFor multiqubit density operators in a suitable tensorial basis, we show that a number of nonunitary operations used in the detection and synthesis of entanglement are classifiable as reflection symmetries, i.e., orientation changing rotations. While one-qubit reflections correspond to antiunitary symmetries, as is known for example from the partial transposition criterion, reflections on the joint density of two or more qubits are not accounted for by the Wigner Theorem and are well-posed only for sufficiently mixed states. One example of such nonlocal reflections is the unconditional NOT operation on a multiparty density, i.e., an operation yelding another density and such that the sum of the two is the identity operator. This nonphysical operation is admissible only for sufficiently mixed states.1 aAltafini, Claudio1 aHavel, Timothy F.  uhttp://hdl.handle.net/1963/2121