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Thirty-six quantum officers are entangled
Published 2 Mar 2026 in quant-ph and math.CO | (2603.02334v1)
Abstract: There exist pairs of orthogonal Latin squares of any order n except if n=2 or n=6 [Bose, Shrikhande and Parker, 1960]. In particular, the problem of Euler's thirty-six officers does not have a solution. However, it has a "quantum solution": there exist so-called entangled quantum Latin squares of order six [Rather et al., 2022]. We prove that mutually orthogonal quantum Latin squares of order six do not exist if entanglement is not allowed.
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