The limitations of nice mutually unbiased bases

Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 111-123

  Aschbacher, Michael ^a   Childs, Andrew M ^b   Wocjan, Paweł ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mutually unbiased bases; Quantum designs; Quantum information theory

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; ERROR ANALYSIS; INFORMATION THEORY; PETRI NETS; QUANTUM THEORY;

HILBERT SPACES; MUTUALLY UNBIASED BASES; QUANTUM DESIGNS; QUANTUM INFORMATION THEORY;

ALGEBRA;

EID: 33847287707     PISSN: 09259899     EISSN: 15729192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10801-006-0002-y     Document Type: Article

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