Title
Unextendible mutually unbiased bases from pauli classes
Abstract
We provide a construction of sets of d/2 + 1 mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) in dimensions d = 4, 8 using maximal commuting classes of Pauli operators. We show that these incomplete sets cannot be extended further using the operators of the Pauli group. Moreover, specific examples of sets of MUBs obtained using our construction are shown to be strongly unextendible; that is, there does not exist another vector that is unbiased with respect to the elements in the set. We conjecture the existence of such unextendible sets in higher dimensions d = 2n(n > 3) as well. Furthermore, we note an interesting connection between these unextendible sets and state-independent proofs of the Kochen-Specker Theorem for two-qubit systems. Our construction also leads to a proof of the tightness of a H2 entropic uncertainty relation for any set of three MUBs constructed from Pauli classes in d = 4.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2014
Quantum Information & Computation
entropic uncertainty relations,kochen-specker theorem,maximal commuting pauli classes,mutually unbiased bases
Field
DocType
Volume
Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Entropic uncertainty,Mutually unbiased bases,Mathematical proof,Operator (computer programming),Pauli group,Conjecture,Mathematics,Pauli exclusion principle,Kochen–Specker theorem
Journal
14
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
9&10
Quant. Inf. Comput. 14, 0823-0844 (2014)
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Prabha Mandayam142.19
Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay2253.08
Markus Grassl3173.32
William K. Wootters4378.67