Cliffordtori and unbiased vectors
Abstract
The existence problem for mutually unbiased bases is an unsolved problem in quantum information theory. A related question is whether every pair of bases admits vectors that are unbiased to both. Mathematically this translates to the question whether two Lagrangian Clifford tori intersect, and a body of results exists concerning it. These (deep!) results are however rather weak when viewed from the point of view of the first problem. We make a detailed study of how the intersections behave in the simplest non-trivial case, that of complex projective 2-space (the qutrit), for which the set of Clifford tori can be usefully parametrized by the unistochastic subset of Birkhoff's polytope. An interesting picture emerges. A foray into higher dimensions is included.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1506.09062,
title = {Cliffordtori and unbiased vectors},
author = {Ole Andersson and Ingemar Bengtsson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.09062},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
25 pages, 8 figures; version 2 is the journal version