Algebraic number theory relates SIC-POVMs in dimension $d>3$ to those in
dimension $d(d-2)$. We define a SIC in dimension $d(d-2)$ to be aligned to a
SIC in dimension $d$ if and only if the squares of the overlap phases in
dimension $d$ appear as a subset of the overlap phases in dimension $d(d-2)$ in
a specified way. We give 19 (mostly numerical) examples of aligned SICs. We
conjecture that given any SIC in dimension $d$ there exists an aligned SIC in
dimension $d(d-2)$. In all our examples the aligned SIC has lower dimensional
equiangular tight frames embedded in it. If $d$ is odd so that a natural tensor
product structure exists, we prove that the individual vectors in the aligned
SIC have a very special entanglement structure, and the existence of the
embedded tight frames follows as a theorem. If $d-2$ is an odd prime number we
prove that a complete set of mutually unbiased bases can be obtained by
reducing an aligned SIC to this dimension.Comment: 24 pages, 2 figure
Abstract. We reconstruct quantum theory starting from the premise that, as Asher Peres remarked, "Unperformed experiments have no results." The tools of quantum information theory, and in particular the symmetric informationally complete (SIC) measurements, provide a concise expression of how exactly Peres's dictum holds true. That expression is a constraint on how the probability distributions for outcomes of different, hypothetical and mutually exclusive experiments ought to mesh together, a type of constraint not foreseen in classical thinking. Taking this as our foundational principle, we show how to reconstruct the formalism of quantum theory in finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces. The central variety of mathematical entity in our reconstruction is the qplex, a very particular type of subset of a probability simplex. Along the way, by closely studying the symmetry properties of qplexes, we derive a condition for the existence of a d-dimensional SIC.
Abstract. We give an overview of some remarkable connections between symmetric informationally complete measurements (SIC-POVMs, or SICs) and algebraic number theory, in particular, a connection with Hilbert's 12 th problem. The paper is meant to be intelligible to a physicist who has no prior knowledge of either Galois theory or algebraic number theory.
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