Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2006-05-04
J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 39 (2006) 13483-13493
Physics
Quantum Physics
6 pages, no figures. v3 Refs added, improved discussion of previous work. Ref to a proof of the main conjecture also added
Scientific paper
10.1088/0305-4470/39/43/007
The generalized Pauli group and its normalizer, the Clifford group, have a rich mathematical structure which is relevant to the problem of constructing symmetric informationally complete POVMs (SIC-POVMs). To date, almost every known SIC-POVM fiducial vector is an eigenstate of a "canonical" unitary in the Clifford group. I show that every canonical unitary in prime dimensions p > 3 lies in the same conjugacy class of the Clifford group and give a class representative for all such dimensions. It follows that if even one such SIC-POVM fiducial vector is an eigenvector of such a unitary, then all of them are (for a given such dimension). I also conjecture that in all dimensions d, the number of conjugacy classes is bounded above by 3 and depends only on d mod 9, and I support this claim with computer computations in all dimensions < 48.
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