We construct the set of all general (i.e. not necessarily rank 1) symmetric informationally complete (SIC) positive operator valued measures (POVMs), and thereby show that SIC-POVMs that are not necessarily rank 1 exist in any finite dimension d. In particular, we show that any orthonormal basis of a real vector space of dimension d 2 − 1 corresponds to some general SIC POVM and vice versa. Our...