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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

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

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

We classify SIC-POVMs of rank one in CP^2, or equivalently sets of nine equally-spaced points in CP^2, without the assumption of group covariance. If two points are fixed, the remaining seven must lie on a pinched torus that a standard…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-01 Lane Hughston , Simon Salamon

Symmetric informationally complete positive operator valued measures (SIC-POVMs) are studied within the framework of the probability representation of quantum mechanics. A SIC-POVM is shown to be a special case of the probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-16 S. N. Filippov , V. I. Man'ko

In this paper we examine a generalization of the symmetric informationally complete POVMs. SIC-POVMs are the optimal measurements for full quantum tomography, but if some parameters of the density matrix are known, then the optimal SIC POVM…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-28 D. Petz , L. Ruppert , A. Szanto

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

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

SIC-POVMs are configurations of points or rank-one projections arising from the action of a finite Heisenberg group on $\mathbb C^d$. The resulting equations are interpreted in terms of moment maps by focussing attention on the orbit of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 Kael Dixon , Simon Salamon

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

There has been much interest in so-called SIC-POVMs: rank 1 symmetric informationally complete positive operator valued measures. In this paper we discuss the larger class of POVMs which are symmetric and informationally complete but not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. M. Appleby

We report on a new computer study into the existence of d^2 equiangular lines in d complex dimensions. Such maximal complex projective codes are conjectured to exist in all finite dimensions and are the underlying mathematical objects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 A. J. Scott , M. Grassl

We introduce a method to determine whether a given generalised quantum measurement is isolated or it belongs to a family of measurements having the same prescribed symmetry. The technique proposed reduces to solving a linear system of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 W. Bruzda , D. Goyeneche , K. Życzkowski

Symmetric informationally complete (SIC) POVMs are a class of quantum measurements which, in addition to being informationally complete, satisfy three conditions: 1) every POVM element is rank one, 2) the Hilbert-Schmidt inner product…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Isabelle Jianing Geng , Kimberly Golubeva , Gilad Gour

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

Generalized quantum measurements play a crucial role in quantum mechanics, and symmetric informationally complete positive operator-valued measurements (SIC POVMs) provide a powerful and flexible framework for extracting information from…

In a previous paper we have presented a general scheme for the implementation of symmetric generalized measurements (POVMs) on a quantum computer. This scheme is based on representation theory of groups and methods to decompose matrices…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Dominik Janzing , Thomas Decker

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

Covariant integral quantizations are based on the resolution of the identity by continuous or discrete families of normalised positive operator valued measures (POVM), which have appealing probabilistic content and which transform in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Jean Pierre Gazeau , Romain Murenzi

A general symmetric-informationally-complete (GSIC)-positive-operator-valued measure (POVM) is known to provide an optimal quantum state tomography among minimal IC POVMs with a fixed average purity. In this paper we provide a general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Masakazu Yoshida , Gen Kimura