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Unextendible Sets of Mutually Unbiased Basis Obtained from Complete Subgraphs

Andrés García, Pablo Carlos López Vázquez

Published Jun 15, 2021• 0 citations
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Abstract

We propose a method, based on the search and identification of complete subgraphs of a regular graph, to obtain sets of Pauli operators whose eigenstates form unextendible complete sets of mutually unbiased bases of n-qubit systems. With this method we can obtain results for complete and inextensible sets of mubs for 2, 3, 4 and 5 qubits.

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10.3390/math9121388

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We provide a construction of sets of d/2+1d/2+1d/2+1 mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) in dimensions d=4,8d=4,8d=4,8 using maximal commuting classes of Pauli operators. We show that these incomplete sets cannot be extended further using the operators of the Pauli group. Moreover, specific examples of sets of MUBs obtained using our construction are shown to be {\it strongly unextendible}; that is, there does not exist another vector that is unbiased with respect to the elements in the set. We conjecture the existence of such unextendible sets in higher dimensions $d=2^{n} (n>3) $ as well.} {Furthermore, we note an interesting connection between these unextendible sets and state-independent proofs of the Kochen-Specker Theorem for two-qubit systems. Our construction also leads to a proof of the tightness of a H2H_{2}H2​ entropic uncertainty relation for any set of three MUBs constructed from Pauli classes in d=4d=4d=4.
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The standard construction of complete sets of mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) in prime power dimensions is based on the quadratic Gauss sums. We introduce complete MUB sets for three, four, and five qubits that are unitarily inequivalent to all existing MUB sets. These sets are constructed by using certain exponential sums, where the degree of the polynomial appearing in the exponent can be higher than 2. Every basis of these MUBs (except the computational) consists of two disjoint blocks of vectors with different factorization structures and associated with a unique hypergraph (or graph) that represents an interaction between the qubits.
A pair of orthonormal bases is called mutually unbiased if all mutual overlaps between any element of one basis and an arbitrary element of the other basis coincide. In case the dimension, ddd, of the considered Hilbert space is a power of a prime number, complete sets of d+1d+1d+1 mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) exist. Here we present a method based on the graph-state formalism to construct such sets of MUBs. We show that for nnn ppp-level systems, with ppp being prime, one particular graph suffices to easily construct a set of pn+1{p}^{n}+1pn+1 MUBs. In fact, we show that a single nnn-dimensional vector, which is associated with this graph, can be used to generate a complete set of MUBs and demonstrate that this vector can be easily determined. Finally, we discuss some advantages of our formalism regarding the analysis of entanglement structures in MUBs, as well as experimental realizations.