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SIC-POVMs from Stark units: Prime dimensions n^2+3

Quantum Physics 2022-11-09 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

We propose a recipe for constructing a SIC fiducial vector in complex Hilbert space of dimension of the form d=n2+3d=n^2+3, focussing on prime dimensions d=pd=p. Such structures are shown to exist in thirteen prime dimensions of this kind, the highest being p=19603p=19603. The real quadratic base field KK (in the standard SIC terminology) attached to such dimensions has fundamental units uKu_K of norm 1-1. Let ZK\mathbb{Z}_K denote the ring of integers of KK, then pZKp\mathbb{Z}_K splits into two ideals p\mathfrak{p} and p\mathfrak{p}'. The initial entry of the fiducial is the square ξ2\xi^2 of a geometric scaling factor ξ\xi, which lies in one of the fields K(uK)K(\sqrt{u_K}). Strikingly, the other p1p-1 entries of the fiducial vector are each the product of ξ\xi and the square root of a Stark unit. These Stark units are obtained via the Stark conjectures from the value at s=0s=0 of the first derivatives of partial LL functions attached to the characters of the ray class group of ZK\mathbb{Z}_K with modulus p1\mathfrak{p}\infty_1, where 1\infty_1 is one of the real places of KK.

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@article{arxiv.2112.05552,
  title  = {SIC-POVMs from Stark units: Prime dimensions n^2+3},
  author = {Marcus Appleby and Ingemar Bengtsson and Markus Grassl and Michael Harrison and Gary McConnell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.05552},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

54 pages, 3 tables; subtitle added, some parts restructured/rewritten, additional solution for dimension 2503