Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2004-09-15
Physics
Quantum Physics
This paper contains the quintessence, in a synthetic formulation, of the main results of the paper T. Durt, quant-ph/0401046,
Scientific paper
Mutually unbiased bases generalize the X, Y and Z qubit bases. They possess numerous applications in quantum information science. It is well-known that in prime power dimensions N=p^m (with p prime and m a positive integer) there exists a maximal set of N+1 mutually unbiased bases. In the present paper, we derive an explicit expression for those bases, in terms of the (operations of the) associated finite field (Galois division ring) of N elements. This expression is shown to be equivalent to the expressions previously obtained by Ivanovic in odd prime dimensions (J. Phys. A, 14, 3241 (1981)), and Wootters and Fields (Ann. Phys. 191, 363 (1989)) in odd prime power dimensions. In even prime power dimensions, we derive a new explicit expression for the mutually unbiased bases. The new ingredients of our approach are, basically, the following: we provide a simple expression of the generalised Pauli group in terms of the additive characters of the field and we derive an exact groupal composition law inside the elements of the commuting subsets of the generalised Pauli group, renormalised by a well-chosen phase-factor.
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