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Symmetric informationally complete measurements (SICs in short) are highly symmetric structures in the Hilbert space. They possess many nice properties which render them an ideal candidate for fiducial measurements. The symmetry of SICs is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-17 Huangjun Zhu

Zauner's conjecture concerns the existence of $d^2$ equiangular lines in $\mathbb{C}^d$; such a system of lines is known as a SIC. In this paper, we construct infinitely many new SICs over finite fields. While all previously known SICs…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-27 Joseph W. Iverson , Dustin G. Mixon

Five years ago, Lane Hughston showed that some of the symmetric informationally complete positive operator valued measures (SICs) in dimension 3 coincide with the Hesse configuration (a structure well known to algebraic geometers, which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-12-04 Hoan Bui Dang , Kate Blanchfield , Ingemar Bengtsson , D. M. Appleby

Symmetric Informationally Complete Positive Operator Valued Measures (usually referred to as SIC-POVMs or simply as SICS) have been constructed in every dimension up to 67. However, a proof that they exist in every finite dimension has yet…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-10-29 D. M. Appleby , Hulya Yadsan-Appleby , Gerhard Zauner

We show that in prime dimensions not equal to three, each group covariant symmetric informationally complete positive operator valued measure (SIC~POVM) is covariant with respect to a unique Heisenberg--Weyl (HW) group. Moreover, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Huangjun Zhu

Zauner's conjecture asserts that $d^2$ equiangular lines exist in all $d$ complex dimensions. In quantum theory, the $d^2$ lines are dubbed a SIC, as they define a favoured standard informationally complete quantum measurement called a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-14 A. J. Scott

This paper concerns SIC-POVMs and their relationship to class field theory. SIC-POVMs are generalized quantum measurements (POVMs) described by $d^2$ equiangular complex lines through the origin in $\mathbb{C}^d$. Weyl--Heisenberg SICs are…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Gene S. Kopp , Jeffrey C. Lagarias

We show that naturally associated to a SIC (symmetric informationally complete positive operator valued measure or SIC-POVM) in dimension d there are a number of higher dimensional structures: specifically a projector and a complex Hadamard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Marcus Appleby , Ingemar Bengtsson , Steven Flammia , Dardo Goyeneche

We lay the foundations for a broad algebraic theory encompassing SICs in the hope of elucidating their heuristic connections with Stark units. What emerges is a greatly generalised set-up with added structure and potential for applications…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-23 David Solomon

We give a holomorphic quartic polynomial in the overlap variables whose zeros on the torus are precisely the Weyl-Heisenberg SICs (symmetric informationally complete positive operator valued measures). By way of comparison, all the other…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Len Bos , Shayne Waldron

This is a survey of some very old knowledge about Mutually Unbiased Bases (MUB) and Symmetric Informationally Complete POVMs (SIC). In prime dimensions the former are closely tied to an elliptic normal curve symmetric under the Heisenberg…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Ingemar Bengtsson

Symmetric Informationally Complete Positive Operator-Valued Measures (SIC-POVMs) have been constructed in many dimensions using the Weyl-Heisenberg group. In the quantum information community, it is commonly believed that SCI-POVMs exist in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 S. B. Samuel , Z. Gedik

Although symmetric informationally complete positive operator valued measures (SIC POVMs, or SICs for short) have been constructed in every dimension up to 67, a general existence proof remains elusive. The purpose of this paper is to show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-17 D. M. Appleby , Christopher A. Fuchs , Huangjun Zhu

The generalized Pauli group and its normalizer, the Clifford group, have a rich mathematical structure which is relevant to the problem of constructing symmetric informationally complete POVMs (SIC-POVMs). To date, almost every known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Steven T. Flammia

The Symmetric Informationally Complete Positive Operator-Valued Measures (SIC-POVMs) are known to exist in all dimensions $\leq 151$ and few higher dimensions as high as $1155$. All known solutions with the exception of the Hoggar solutions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Solomon B. Samuel , Zafer Gedik

The existence problem for maximal sets of equiangular lines (or SICs) in complex Hilbert space of dimension $d$ remains largely open. In a previous publication (arXiv:2112.05552) we gave a conjectural algorithm for how to construct a SIC if…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Ingemar Bengtsson , Markus Grassl , Gary McConnell

Uniform measures have played a fundamental role in geometric measure theory since they naturally appear as tangent objects. For instance, they were essential in the groundbreaking work of Preiss on the rectifiability of Radon measures.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-26 A. Dali Nimer

Symmetric informationally complete measurements (SICs) are elegant, celebrated and broadly useful discrete structures in Hilbert space. We introduce a more sophisticated discrete structure compounded by several SICs. A SIC-compound is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-26 Armin Tavakoli , Ingemar Bengtsson , Nicolas Gisin , Joseph M. Renes

In this paper, we show that in Hilbert space of any finite dimension N, there are N^2 unit vectors which constitute Symmetric Informationally Complete Positive Operator Valued Measure (SIC-POVM).

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Stefan Joka

We investigate the action of the first three levels of the Clifford hierarchy on sets of mutually unbiased bases comprising the Ivanovic MUB and the Alltop MUBs. Vectors in the Alltop MUBs exhibit additional symmetries when the dimension is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Ingemar Bengtsson , Kate Blanchfield , Earl Campbell , Mark Howard
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