Simplified exact SICS

DOI10.1063/1.5081508MaRDI QIDQ5223598zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Marcus Appleby, Ingemar Bengtsson

Publication date 18 July 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00947

zbMATH Keywords

informationally complete observables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector-valued measures and integration (46G10) Operator spaces and completely bounded maps (46L07) Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15)

Abstract: In the standard basis exact expressions for the components of SIC vectors (belonging to a symmetric informationally complete POVM) are typically very complicated. We show that a simple transformation to a basis adapted to the symmetries of a fiducial SIC vector can result in a massive reduction in complexity. We rely on a conjectural number theoretic connection between SICs in dimension $d_j$ and SICs in dimension $d_{j+1}=d_j(d_j-2)$. We focus on the sequence 5, 15, 195, ... . We rewrite Zauner's exact solution for the SIC in dimension 5 to make its simplicity manifest, and use our adapted basis to convert numerical solutions in dimensions 15 and 195 to exact solutions. Comparing to the known exact solutions in dimension 15 we find that the simplification achieved is dramatic. The proof that the exact vectors are indeed SIC fiducial vectors, also in dimension 195, is a long calculation guided by the standard ray class hypothesis about the algebraic number fields generated by the SICs. We conjecture that our result generalizes to every dimension in the particular sequence we consider.

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