Constructing Mutually Unbiased Bases from Unextendible Maximally Entangled Bases

Unextendible maximally entangled bases and mutually unbiased bases

Unextendible mutually unbiased bases from Pauli C\classes

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. What is more, specific examples of sets of MUBs obtained using our construction are shown to be strongly unextendible; that is, there does not e...

Unextendible Mutually Unbiased Bases (after Mandayam, Bandyopadhyay, Grassl and Wootters)

We consider questions posed in a recent paper of Mandayam et al. (2014) on the nature of “unextendible mutually unbiased bases.” We describe a conceptual framework to study these questions, using a connection proved by the author in Thas (2009) between the set of nonidentity generalized Pauli operators on the Hilbert space of N d-level quantum systems, d a prime, and the geometry of non-degener...

Constructing Mutually Unbiased Bases in Dimension Six

The density matrix of a qudit may be reconstructed with optimal efficiency if the expectation values of a specific set of observables are known. In dimension six, the required observables only exist if it is possible to identify six mutually unbiased complex (6 × 6) Hadamard matrices. Prescribing a first Hadamard matrix, we construct all others mutually unbiased to it, using algebraic computati...

Constructing Mutually Unbiased Bases from Quantum Latin Squares

We introduce orthogonal quantum Latin squares, which restrict to traditional orthogonal Latin squares, and investigate their application in quantum information science. We use quantum Latin squares to build maximally entangled bases, and show how mutually unbiased maximally entangled bases can be constructed in square dimension from orthogonal quantum Latin squares. We also compare our construc...