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Mutually Unbiased Unitary Bases of Operators on $d$-dimensional Hilbert Space

Quantum Physics 2020-12-21 v1

Abstract

Analogous to the notion of mutually unbiased bases for Hilbert spaces, we consider mutually unbiased unitary bases (MUUB) for the space of operators, M(d,C)M(d, \mathbb{C}), acting on such Hilbert spaces. The notion of MUUB reflects the equiprobable guesses of unitary in one bases of M(d,C)M(d, \mathbb{C}) when estimating a unitary operator in another. Though, for prime dimension dd, the maximal number of MUUBs is known to be d21d^{2}-1, there is no known recipe for constructing them, assuming they exist. However, one can always construct a minimum of three MUUBs, and the maximal number is approached for very large values of dd. MUUBs can also exists for some dd-dimensional subspace of M(d,C)M(d, \mathbb{C}) with the maximal number being dd.

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@article{arxiv.2003.12201,
  title  = {Mutually Unbiased Unitary Bases of Operators on $d$-dimensional Hilbert Space},
  author = {Rinie N. M. Nasir and Jesni Shamsul Shaari and Stefano Mancini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.12201},
  year   = {2020}
}

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