Unbiased bases (Hadamards) for six-level systems: four ways from Fourier

DOI10.1063/1.3059166zbMATH Open1189.81013arXiv0810.1761OpenAlexW2050442515MaRDI QIDQ3649934FDOQ3649934

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Publication date: 7 December 2009

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

Abstract: In quantum mechanics some properties are maximally incompatible, such as the position and momentum of a particle or the vertical and horizontal projections of a 2-level spin. Given any definite state of one property the other property is completely random, or unbiased. For N-level systems, the 6-level ones are the smallest for which a tomographically efficient set of N+1 mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) has not been found. To facilitate the search, we numerically extend the classification of unbiased bases, or Hadamards, by incrementally adjusting relative phases in a standard basis. We consider the non-unitarity caused by small adjustments with a second order Taylor expansion, and choose incremental steps within the 4-dimensional nullspace of the curvature. In this way we prescribe a numerical integration of a 4-parameter set of Hadamards of order 6.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.1761

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zbMATH Keywords

integrationFourier analysisHadamard matriceseigenvalues and eigenfunctionsquantum theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fourier series in special orthogonal functions (Legendre polynomials, Walsh functions, etc.) (42C10) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15)

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