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Quantum circuits for single-qubit measurements corresponding to platonic solids

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Each platonic solid defines a single-qubit positive operator valued measure (POVM) by interpreting its vertices as points on the Bloch sphere. We construct simple circuits for implementing this kind of measurements and other simple types of symmetric POVMs on one qubit. Each implementation consists of a discrete Fourier transform and some elementary quantum operations followed by an orthogonal measurement in the computational basis.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0308098,
  title  = {Quantum circuits for single-qubit measurements corresponding to platonic solids},
  author = {Thomas Decker and Dominik Janzing and Thomas Beth},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0308098},
  year   = {2007}
}

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24 pages, Latex, 15 figures