Mutually unbiased bases and complementary spin 1 observables

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/43/26/265303MaRDI QIDQ3578281zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paweł Kurzyński, Wawrzyniec Kaszub, Mikołaj Czechlewski

Publication date 19 July 2010

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.1723

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Quantum state estimation, approximate cloning (81P50)

Abstract: The two observables are complementary if they cannot be measured simultaneously, however they become maximally complementary if their eigenstates are mutually unbiased. Only then the measurement of one observable gives no information about the other observable. The spin projection operators onto three mutually orthogonal directions are maximally complementary only for the spin 1/2. For the higher spin numbers they are no longer unbiased. In this work we examine the properties of spin 1 Mutually Unbiased Bases (MUBs) and look for the physical meaning of the corresponding operators. We show that if the computational basis is chosen to be the eigenbasis of the spin projection operator onto some direction z, the states of the other MUBs have to be squeezed. Then, we introduce the analogs of momentum and position operators and interpret what information about the spin vector the observer gains while measuring them. Finally, we study the generation and the measurement of MUBs states by introducing the Fourier like transform through spin squeezing. The higher spin numbers are also considered.

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