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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

We present a general formalism for giving a measure space paired with a separable Hilbert space a quantum version based on normalized positive operator-valued measure. The latter are built from families of density operators labelled by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Jean Pierre Gazeau , Barbara Heller

It is a well-known fact that the optimal POVM for quantum state tomography is the symmetric, informationally complete, positive operator valued measure (SIC-POVM). We investigate the same problem only in the case when there are some a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-23 Dénes Petz , László Ruppert

The quantum state of a $d$-dimensional system can be represented by the $d^2$ probabilities corresponding to a SIC-POVM, and then this distribution of probability can be represented by a vector of $\R^{d^2-1}$ in a simplex, we will call…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-09 Jose Ignacio Rosado

The geometry of the Quantum State Space, described by Bloch vectors, is a very intricate one. A deeper understanding of this geometry could lead to the solution of some difficult problems in Quantum Foundations and Quantum Information such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-30 Jose Ignacio Rosado

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

We give an overview of some remarkable connections between symmetric informationally complete measurements (SIC-POVMs, or SICs) and algebraic number theory, in particular, a connection with Hilbert's 12th problem. The paper is meant to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-25 Marcus Appleby , Steven Flammia , Gary McConnell , Jon Yard

In recent years, the traditional notion of symmetry in quantum theory was expanded to so-called generalised or categorical symmetries, which, unlike ordinary group symmetries, may be non-invertible. This appears to be at odds with Wigner's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Thomas Bartsch , Yuhan Gai , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

Since Renes et al. [J. Math. Phys. 45, 2171 (2004)], there has been much effort in the quantum information community to prove (or disprove) the existence of symmetric informationally complete (SIC) sets of quantum states in arbitrary finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-29 D. M. Appleby , Hoan Bui Dang , Christopher A. Fuchs

The most general type of measurement in quantum physics is modeled by a positive operator-valued measure (POVM). Mathematically, a POVM is a generalization of a measure, whose values are not real numbers, but positive operators on a Hilbert…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-12-31 Frank Roumen

Algebraic number theory relates SIC-POVMs in dimension $d>3$ to those in dimension $d(d-2)$. We define a SIC in dimension $d(d-2)$ to be aligned to a SIC in dimension $d$ if and only if the squares of the overlap phases in dimension $d$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-01 Marcus Appleby , Ingemar Bengtsson , Irina Dumitru , Steven Flammia

In the signal-processing literature, a frame is a mechanism for performing analysis and reconstruction in a Hilbert space. By contrast, in quantum theory, a positive operator-valued measure (POVM) decomposes a Hilbert-space vector for the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-27 Benjamin Robinson , Bill Moran , Doug Cochran

A Positive Operator Valued Measure (POVM) is a map $F:\mathcal{B}(X)\to\mathcal{L}_s^+(\mathcal{H})$ from the Borel $\sigma$-algebra of a topological space $X$ to the space of positive self-adjoint operators on a Hilbert space…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-03 Roberto Beneduci

We introduce and study a general notion of spatial localization on spacelike smooth Cauchy surfaces of quantum systems in Minkowski spacetime. The notion is constructed in terms of a coherent family of normalized POVMs, one for each said…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-05-30 Carmine De Rosa , Valter Moretti

We propose a scheme to implement general quantum measurements, also known as Positive Operator Valued Measures (POVMs) in dimension $d$ using only classical resources and a single ancillary qubit. Our method is based on the probabilistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 Tanmay Singal , Filip B. Maciejewski , Michał Oszmaniec

As established by Sol\`er, Quantum Theories may be formulated in real, complex or quaternionic Hilbert spaces only. St\"uckelberg provided physical reasons for ruling out real Hilbert spaces relying on Heisenberg principle. Focusing on this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-06-15 Valter Moretti , Marco Oppio

In the standard basis exact expressions for the components of SIC vectors (belonging to a symmetric informationally complete POVM) are typically very complicated. We show that a simple transformation to a basis adapted to the symmetries of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-08 Marcus Appleby , Ingemar Bengtsson

We show that a one-dimensional discrete time quantum walk can be used to implement a generalized measurement in terms of positive operator value measure (POVM) on a single qubit. More precisely, we show that for a single qubit any set of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-22 Pawel Kurzynski , Antoni Wojcik

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

The generalized Bloch decomposition of a bipartite quantum state gives rise to a correlation matrix whose singular values provide rich information about non-local properties of the state, such as the dimensionality of entanglement. While…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-12 Nikolai Wyderka , Andreas Ketterer