A Criterion for Attaining the Welch Bounds with Applications for Mutually Unbiased Bases

DOI10.1007/978-3-540-89994-5_6zbMATH Open1178.81044DBLPconf/mmics/BelovsS08arXiv0802.0855OpenAlexW1602656684WikidataQ62045608 ScholiaQ62045608MaRDI QIDQ5504565FDOQ5504565

Authors: Aleksandrs Belovs, J. Smotrovs

Publication date: 22 January 2009

Published in: Mathematical Methods in Computer Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The paper gives a short introduction to mutually unbiased bases and the Welch bounds and demonstrates that the latter is a good technical tool to explore the former. In particular, a criterion for a system of vectors to satisfy the Welch bounds with equality is given and applied for the case of MUBs. This yields a necessary and sufficient condition on a set of orthonormal bases to form a complete system of MUBs. This condition takes an especially elegant form in the case of homogeneous systems of MUBs. We express some known constructions of MUBs in this form. Also it is shown how recently obtained results binding MUBs and some combinatorial structures (such as perfect nonlinear functions and relative difference sets) naturally follow from this criterion. Some directions for proving non-existence results are sketched as well.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.0855

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Combinatorial aspects of matrices (incidence, Hadamard, etc.) (05B20) Quantum coding (general) (81P70) Hilbert and pre-Hilbert spaces: geometry and topology (including spaces with semidefinite inner product) (46C05)

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