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Mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) play a key role in many protocols in quantum science, such as quantum key distribution. However, defining MUBs for arbitrary high-dimensional systems is theoretically difficult, and measurements in such bases…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-03 D. Giovannini , J. Romero , J. Leach , A. Dudley , A. Forbes , M. J. Padgett

Mutually unbiased bases encapsulate the concept of complementarity - the impossibility of simultaneous knowledge of certain observables - in the formalism of quantum theory. Although this concept is at the heart of quantum mechanics, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-19 Tomasz Paterek , Borivoje Dakic , Caslav Brukner

The structural characterization of high-dimensional mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) by classifying MUBs subsets remains a major open problem. The existing methods not only fail to conclude on the exact classification, but also are severely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Jianxin Song , Zhen-Peng Xu , Changliang Ren

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

Mutually unbiased bases (MUB) are useful in a number of research areas. The symmetry of MUB is an elusive and interesting subject. A (complete set of) MUB in dimension $d$ is sharply covariant if it can be generated by a group of order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-09 Huangjun Zhu

There has been great interest in finding sets of $m$ mutually unbiased bases which are compatible with a given space $\mathbb{C}^d$, specially in physics due to their interesting applications in quantum information theory. Several general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 J. Batle

The question of determining the maximal number of mutually unbiased bases in dimension six has received much attention since their introduction to quantum information theory, but a definitive answer has still not been found. In this paper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Paul Butterley , William Hall

A set of $b$ mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) in $\mathbb{C}^d$ (for $d > 1$) comprises $bd$ vectors in $\mathbb{C}^d$, partitioned into $b$ orthogonal bases for $\mathbb{C}^d$ such that the pairwise angle between all vectors from distinct…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Jonathan Jedwab , Lily Yen

Mutually unbiased measurements are a generalization of mutually unbiased bases in which the measurement operators need not to be rank one projectors. In a $d$-dimension space, the purity of measurement elements ranges from $1/d$ for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-30 Mahdi Salehi , Seyed Javad Akhtarshenas , Mohsen Sarbishaei , Hakimeh Jaghouri

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

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

Constructing four six-dimensional mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) is an open problem in quantum physics and measurement. We investigate the existence of four MUBs including the identity, and a complex Hadamard matrix (CHM) of Schmidt rank…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Mengyao Hu , Yize Sun , Lin Chen

We study mutually unbiased maximally entangled bases (MUMEB's) in bipartite system $\mathbb{C}^d\otimes\mathbb{C}^d (d \geq 3)$. We generalize the method to construct MUMEB's given in [16], by using any commutative ring $R$ with $d$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-12 Junying Liu , Minghui Yang , Keqin Feng

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

Mutually unbiased bases for quantum degrees of freedom are central to all theoretical investigations and practical exploitations of complementary properties. Much is known about mutually unbiased bases, but there are also a fair number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-04 Thomas Durt , Berthold-Georg Englert , Ingemar Bengtsson , Karol Życzkowski

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 describe sets of mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) for quantum states defined over the p-adic numbers Q_p, i.e. the states that can be described as elements of the (rigged) Hilbert space L2(Q_p). We find that for every prime p>2 there are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-02 Wim van Dam , Alexander Russell

Mutually unbiased bases (MUB) are an elusive discrete structure in Hilbert spaces. Many (complete sets of) MUB are group covariant, but little is known whether they can be sharply covariant in the sense that the generating groups can have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-03 Huangjun Zhu

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

A set of mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) is said to be unextendible if there does not exist another basis that is unbiased with respect to the given set. Here, we prove the existence of smaller sets of MUBs in prime-squared dimensions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-25 Vishakh Hegde , Prabha Mandayam