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Orbits of mutually unbiased bases

Quantum Physics 2015-06-17 v3

Abstract

We express Alltop's construction of mutually unbiased bases as orbits under the Weyl-Heisenberg group in prime dimensions and find a related construction in dimensions 2 and 4. We reproduce Alltop's mutually unbiased bases using abelian subgroups of the Clifford group in prime dimensions, in direct analogy to the well-known construction of mutually unbiased bases using abelian subgroups of the Weyl-Heisenberg group. Finally, we prove three theorems relating to the distances and linear dependencies among different sets of mutually unbiased bases.

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@article{arxiv.1310.4684,
  title  = {Orbits of mutually unbiased bases},
  author = {Kate Blanchfield},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.4684},
  year   = {2015}
}

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21 pages

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