Highly entangled tensors

Abstract

A geometric measure for the entanglement of a unit length tensor $T \in (\mathbb{C}^n)^{\otimes k}$ is given by $- 2 \log_2 ||T||_σ$, where $||.||_σ$ denotes the spectral norm. A simple induction gives an upper bound of $(k-1) \log_2(n)$ for the entanglement. We show the existence of tensors with entanglement larger than $k \log_2(n) - \log_2(k) - o(\log_2(k))$. Friedland and Kemp have similar results in the case of symmetric tensors. Our techniques give improvements in this case.