Is the SIC Outcome There When Nobody Looks?

2018/07/19 by Blake C. Stacey, Stacey, Blake C.
Physics and Astronomy · #Data Analysis #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1807.07194

openalex publication_date 2018/07/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Informationally complete measurements are a dramatic discovery of quantum information science, and the symmetric IC measurements, known as SICs, are in many ways optimal among them. Close study of three of the "sporadic SICs" reveals an illuminating relation between different ways of quantifying the extent to which quantum theory deviates from classical expectations.

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