  Recent years have seen an increasing body of work examining how quantum
entanglement can be measured at high energy particle physics experiments,
thereby complementing traditional table-top experiments. This raises the
question of whether more concepts from quantum computation can be examined at
colliders, and we here consider the property of magic, which distinguishes
those quantum states which have a genuine computational advantage over
classical states. We examine top anti-top pair production at the LHC, showing
that nature chooses to produce magic tops, where the amount of magic varies
with the kinematics of the final state. We compare results for individual
partonic channels and at proton-level, showing that averaging over final states
typically increases magic. This is in contrast to entanglement measures, such
as the concurrence, which typically decrease. Our results create new links
between the quantum information and particle physics literatures, providing
practical insights for further study.
