2014/07/10 by Thas, Koen · 1 citation
#FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1407.2778
We consider questions posed in a recent paper of Mandayam, Bandyopadhyay, Grassl and Wootters [10] on the nature of "unextendible mutually unbiased bases." We describe a conceptual framework to study these questions, using a connection proved by the author in [19] between the set of nonidentity generalized Pauli operators on the Hilbert space of N d-level quantum systems, d a prime, and the geometry of non-degenerate alternating bilinear forms of rank N over finite fields \mathbbFd. We then supply alternative and short proofs of results obtained in [10], as well as new general bounds for the problems considered in loc. cit. In this setting, we also solve Conjecture 1 of [10], and speculate on variations of this conjecture.