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Extrema of discrete Wigner functions and applications

Quantum Physics 2008-09-02 v2

Abstract

We study the class of discrete Wigner functions proposed by Gibbons et al. [Phys. Rev. A 70, 062101 (2004)] to describe quantum states using a discrete phase-space based on finite fields. We find the extrema of such functions for small Hilbert space dimensions, and present a quantum information application: a construction of quantum random access codes. These are constructed using the complete set of phase-space point operators to find encoding states and to obtain the codes' average success rates for Hilbert space dimensions 2,3,4,5,7 and 8.

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@article{arxiv.0805.3466,
  title  = {Extrema of discrete Wigner functions and applications},
  author = {Andrea Casaccino and Ernesto F. Galvao and Simone Severini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.3466},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

7 pages, 1 figure. v2: minor changes, published version

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