The SIC question: History and state of play

CA Fuchs, MC Hoang, BC Stacey - Axioms, 2017 - mdpi.com
Recent years have seen significant advances in the study of symmetric informationally
complete (SIC) quantum measurements, also known as maximal sets of complex …

Perspective: Basic understanding of condensed phases of matter via packing models

S Torquato - The Journal of chemical physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Packing problems have been a source of fascination for millennia and their study has
produced a rich literature that spans numerous disciplines. Investigations of hard-particle …

Tight informationally complete quantum measurements

AJ Scott - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
We introduce a class of informationally complete positive-operator-valued measures which
are, in analogy with a tight frame,'as close as possible'to orthonormal bases for the space of …

Mutually unbiased bases and symmetric informationally complete measurements in Bell experiments

A Tavakoli, M Farkas, D Rosset, JD Bancal… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) and symmetric informationally complete projectors (SICs)
are crucial to many conceptual and practical aspects of quantum theory. Here, we develop …

On the construction of equiangular frames from graphs

S Waldron - Linear Algebra and its applications, 2009 - Elsevier
We give details of the 1-1 correspondence between equiangular frames of n vectors for Rd
and graphs with n vertices. This has been studied recently for tight equiangular frames …

Group theoretic, Lie algebraic and Jordan algebraic formulations of the SIC existence problem

DM Appleby, CA Fuchs, H Zhu - arxiv preprint arxiv:1312.0555, 2013 - arxiv.org
Although symmetric informationally complete positive operator valued measures (SIC
POVMs, or SICs for short) have been constructed in every dimension up to 67, a general …

Optimal simplices and codes in projective spaces

H Cohn, A Kumar, G Minton - Geometry & Topology, 2016 - msp.org
We find many tight codes in compact spaces, in other words, optimal codes whose optimality
follows from linear programming bounds. In particular, we show the existence (and …

Symmetric informationally-complete quantum states as analogues to orthonormal bases and minimum-uncertainty states

DM Appleby, HB Dang, CA Fuchs - Entropy, 2014 - mdpi.com
Recently there has been much effort in the quantum information community to prove (or
disprove) the existence of symmetric informationally complete (SIC) sets of quantum states …

[PDF][PDF] Quantum state estimation and symmetric informationally complete POMs

Z Huangjun - 2012 - core.ac.uk
Quantum state estimation is a procedure for inferring the state of a quantum system from
generalized measurements, known as probability operator measurements (POMs). It is a …

A generalized Pauli problem and an infinite family of MUB-triplets in dimension 6

P Jaming, M Matolcsi, P Móra, F Szöllősi… - Journal of Physics A …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We exhibit an infinite family of triplets of mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) in dimension 6.
These triplets involve the Fourier family of Hadamard matrices, F (a, b). However, in the main …