arXiv:1709.06768 · Entropy

The Poincaré Half-Plane for Informationally-Complete POVMs

Michel R. P. Planat

Published Dec 31, 2017• 11 citations

Abstract

It has been shown in previous papers that classes of (minimal asymmetric) informationally-complete positive operator valued measures (IC-POVMs) in dimension d can be built using the multiparticle Pauli group acting on appropriate fiducial states. The latter states may also be derived starting from the Poincaré upper half-plane model H . To do this, one translates the congruence (or non-congruence) subgroups of index d of the modular group into groups of permutation gates, some of the eigenstates of which are the sought fiducials. The structure of some IC-POVMs is found to be intimately related to the Kochen–Specker theorem.

DOI: 10.3390/e20010016

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