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On Symmetric Sets of Projectors for Reconstruction of a Density Matrix

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

In this work are presented sets of projectors for reconstruction of a density matrix for an arbitrary mixed state of a quantum system with the finite-dimensional Hilbert space. It was discussed earlier [quant-ph/0104126] a construction with (2n-1)n projectors for the dimension n. For n=2 it is a set with six projectors associated with eigenvectors of three Pauli matrices, but for n>2 the construction produces not such a `regular' set. In this paper are revisited some results of previous work [quant-ph/0104126] and discussed another, more symmetric construction with the Weyl matrix pair (as the generalization of Pauli matrices). In the particular case of prime n it is the mutually unbiased set with (n+1)n projectors. In appendix is shown an example of application of complete sets for discussions about separability and random robustness.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0302064,
  title  = {On Symmetric Sets of Projectors for Reconstruction of a Density Matrix},
  author = {Alexander Yu. Vlasov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0302064},
  year   = {2007}
}

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