title: Fractional topological phase for entangled qudits.
abstract: We investigate the topological structure of entangled qudits under unitary local operations. Different sectors are identified in the evolution, and their topological aspects are analyzed. The geometric phase is explicitly calculated in terms of the concurrence. As a main result, we predict a fractional phase for cyclic evolutions in the multiply connected space of maximally entangled states. This result is potentially useful for noise robust implementations of quantum gates.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói-RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: L E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Oxman
authors.forename: A Z
authors.initials: AZ
authors.lastname: Khoury