Clifford tori and unbiased vectors

DOI10.1016/S0034-4877(17)30019-8zbMATH Open1384.81013arXiv1506.09062OpenAlexW786942023MaRDI QIDQ1744686FDOQ1744686

Authors: Ole Andersson, Ingemar Bengtsson 

Publication date: 19 April 2018

Published in: Reports on Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The existence problem for mutually unbiased bases is an unsolved problem in quantum information theory. A related question is whether every pair of bases admits vectors that are unbiased to both. Mathematically this translates to the question whether two Lagrangian Clifford tori intersect, and a body of results exists concerning it. These (deep!) results are however rather weak when viewed from the point of view of the first problem. We make a detailed study of how the intersections behave in the simplest non-trivial case, that of complex projective 2-space (the qutrit), for which the set of Clifford tori can be usefully parametrized by the unistochastic subset of Birkhoff's polytope. An interesting picture emerges. A foray into higher dimensions is included.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.09062

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zbMATH Keywords

Lagrangian submanifoldsmutually unbiased basesBirkhoff's polytope

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20)

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