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A synchronous NPA hierarchy with applications

Quantum Physics 2023-07-25 v2 Operator Algebras

Abstract

We present an adaptation of the NPA hierarchy to the setting of synchronous correlation matrices. Our adaptation improves upon the original NPA hierarchy by using smaller certificates and fewer constraints, although it can only be applied to certify synchronous correlations. We recover characterizations for the sets of synchronous quantum commuting and synchronous quantum correlations. For applications, we show that the existence of symmetric informationally complete positive operator-valued measures and maximal sets of mutually unbiased bases can be verified or invalidated with only two certificates of our adapted NPA hierarchy.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2105.01555,
  title  = {A synchronous NPA hierarchy with applications},
  author = {Travis B. Russell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.01555},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Updated with more background on the NPA hierarchy. Significant improvements to the SIC and MUB applications. To appear in "Operators and Matrices"

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