Maximally symmetric stabilizer MUBs in even prime-power dimensions

DOI10.1063/1.4977830zbMATH Open1359.81055OpenAlexW3102506848MaRDI QIDQ2974635FDOQ2974635

Authors Claudio Carmeli, J. Schultz, Alessandro Toigo

Publication date 10 April 2017

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.01372

Analysis of variance and covariance (ANOVA) (62J10) Canonical transformations in symplectic and contact geometry (53D22) Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Quantum state estimation, approximate cloning (81P50)

Abstract: One way to construct a maximal set of mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) in a prime-power dimensional Hilbert space is by means of finite phase-space methods. MUBs obtained in this way are covariant with respect to some subgroup of the group of all affine symplectic phase-space transformations. However, this construction is not canonical: as a consequence, many different choices of covariance sugroups are possible. In particular, when the Hilbert space is

2^{n}

dimensional, it is known that covariance with respect to the full group of affine symplectic phase-space transformations can never be achieved. Here we show that in this case there exist two essentially different choices of maximal subgroups admitting covariant MUBs. For both of them, we explicitly construct a family of

2^{n}

covariant MUBs. We thus prove that, contrary to the odd dimensional case, maximally covariant MUBs are very far from being unique.

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