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Mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) have been used in several cryptographic and communications applications. There has been much speculation regarding connections between MUBs and finite geometries. Most of which has focused on a connection with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-06-05 Joanne L. Hall , Jan Stovicek

Mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) provide a standard tool in the verification of quantum states, especially when harnessing a complete set for optimal quantum state tomography. In this work, we investigate the detection of entanglement via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-14 B. C. Hiesmayr , D. McNulty , S. Baek , S. Singha Roy , J. Bae , D. Chruściński

Mutually Unbiased Bases (MUBs) constitute a fundamental geometric structure in quantum theory, known for providing an optimal measurement scheme for quantum state tomography. In prime and prime-power dimensions, analytical constructions of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Buğra Gültekin , Solomon B. Samuel , Zafer Gedik

In this contribution we group the operator basis for d^2 dimensional Hilbert space in a way that enables us to relate bases of entangled states with single particle mutually unbiased state bases (MUB), each in dimensionality d. We utilize…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Kalev , F. C. Khanna , M. Revzen

We examine the existence and structure of particular sets of mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) in bipartite qudit systems. In contrast to well-known power-of-prime MUB constructions, we restrict ourselves to using maximally entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-02 Wim van Dam , Mark Howard

Mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) are a crucial ingredient for many protocols in quantum information processing. Measurements performed in these bases are unbiased to the maximally possible extent, which is used to prove randomness or secrecy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Mirdit Doda , Matej Pivoluska , Martin Plesch

A pair of orthonormal bases is called mutually unbiased if all mutual overlaps between any element of one basis with an arbitrary element of the other basis coincide. In case the dimension, $d$, of the considered Hilbert space is a power of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-27 Christoph Spengler , Barbara Kraus

In this contribution we relate two different key concepts: mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) and entanglement; in particular we focus on bound entanglement, i.e. highly mixed states which cannot be distilled by local operations and classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-09 Beatrix C. Hiesmayr , Wolfgang Löffler

Quantum measurements based on mutually unbiased bases are commonly used in quantum information processing, as they are generally viewed as being maximally incompatible and complementary. Here we quantify precisely the degree of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-20 Sébastien Designolle , Paul Skrzypczyk , Florian Fröwis , Nicolas Brunner

Quantum measurements based on mutually unbiased bases (MUB) play crucial roles in foundational studies and quantum information processing. It is known that there exist inequivalent MUB, but little is known about their operational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-14 Wen-Zhe Yan , Yunting Li , Zhibo Hou , Huangjun Zhu , Guo-Yong Xiang , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

We present a detailed computational and algebraic study of Mutually Unbiased Bases (MUBs) in finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces, with a particular focus on dimensions 2, 3, 4, and the challenging case of 6. Starting from the Hadamard-phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Jean-Christophe Pain

Unextendible sets of Mutually Unbiased Bases (MUBs) are examined from the point of view of complementary subalgebras. We show, that the linear span of less than $d+1$ factors of $M_d \otimes M_d$ does not contain pure states, and therefore…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Andras Szanto

In dimension $d$, Mutually Unbiased Bases (MUBs) are a collection of orthonormal bases over $\mathbb{C}^d$ such that for any two vectors $v_1, v_2$ belonging to different bases, the scalar product $|\braket{v_1|v_2}| = \frac{1}{\sqrt{d}}$.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Ajeet Kumar , Subhamoy Maitra , Somjit Roy

We consider the notion of unitary transformations forming bases for subspaces of $M(d,\mathbb{C})$ such that the square of Hilbert-Schmidt inner product of matrices from the differing bases is a constant. Moving from the qubit case,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-24 Jesni Shamsul Shaari , Rinie N. M. Nasir , Stefano Mancini

Maximal sets of mutually unbiased bases are useful throughout quantum physics, both in a foundational context and for applications. To date, it remains unknown if complete sets of mutually unbiased bases exist in Hilbert spaces of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Daniel McNulty , Stefan Weigert

This note is a short elaboration of the conjecture of Saniga et al (J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. 6 (2004) L19-L20) by regarding a set of mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) in a d-dimensional Hilbert space, d being a power of a prime, as an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Metod Saniga , Michel Planat

This is a review of the problem of Mutually Unbiased Bases in finite dimensional Hilbert spaces, real and complex. Also a geometric measure of "mubness" is introduced, and applied to some recent calculations in six dimensions (partly done…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Ingemar Bengtsson

In the framework of mutually unbiased bases (MUBs), a measurement in one basis gives \emph{no information} about the outcomes of measurements in another basis. Here, we relax the no-information condition by allowing the $d$ outcomes to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Seyed Javad Akhtarshenas , Saman Karimi , Mahdi Salehi

A complete set of N+1 mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) exists in Hilbert spaces of dimension N = p^k, where p is a prime number. They mesh naturally with finite affine planes of order N, that exist when N = p^k. The existence of MUBs for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ingemar Bengtsson

Mutually Unbiased Bases (MUBs) are closely connected with quantum physics, and the structure has a rich mathematical background. We provide equivalent criteria for extending a set of MUBs for $C^n$ by studying real points of a certain…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Arindam Banerjee , Kanoy Kumar Das , Ajeet Kumar , Rakesh Kumar , Subhamoy Maitra