Local unitary equivalence and entanglement of multipartite pure states

The necessary and sufficient conditions for the equivalence of arbitrary n-qubit pure quantum states under local unitary (LU) operations derived in are used to determine the different LU-equivalence classes of up to five-qubit states. Due to this classification new parameters characterizing multipartite entanglement are found and their physical interpretation is given. Moreover, the method is used to derive examples of two n-qubit states (with n>2 arbitrary) which have the properties that all the entropies of any subsystem coincide; however, the states are neither LU equivalent nor can be mapped into each other by general local operations and classical communication.