We connect magic(non-stabilizer)states,symmetric informationally complete positive operator valued measures(SIC-POVMs),and mutually unbiased bases(MUBs)in the context of group frames,and study their interplay.Magic st...We connect magic(non-stabilizer)states,symmetric informationally complete positive operator valued measures(SIC-POVMs),and mutually unbiased bases(MUBs)in the context of group frames,and study their interplay.Magic states are quantum resources in the stabilizer formalism of quantum computation.SIC-POVMs and MUBs are fundamental structures in quantum information theory with many applications in quantum foundations,quantum state tomography,and quantum cryptography,etc.In this work,we study group frames constructed from some prominent magic states,and further investigate their applications.Our method exploits the orbit of discrete Heisenberg-Weyl group acting on an initial fiducial state.We quantify the distance of the group frames from SIC-POVMs and MUBs,respectively.As a simple corollary,we reproduce a complete family of MUBs of any prime dimensional system by introducing the concept of MUB fiducial states,analogous to the well-known SIC-POVM fiducial states.We present an intuitive and direct construction of MUB fiducial states via quantum T-gates,and demonstrate that for the qubit system,there are twelve MUB fiducial states,which coincide with the H-type magic states.We compare MUB fiducial states and SIC-POVM fiducial states from the perspective of magic resource for stabilizer quantum computation.We further pose the challenging issue of identifying all MUB fiducial states in general dimensions.展开更多
Nonlocal correlations observed from entangled quantum particles imply the existence of intrinsic randomness.Normally, locally projective measurements performed on a two-qubit entangled state can only certify one-bit r...Nonlocal correlations observed from entangled quantum particles imply the existence of intrinsic randomness.Normally, locally projective measurements performed on a two-qubit entangled state can only certify one-bit randomness at most, while non-projective measurement can certify more randomness with the same quantum resources. In this Letter, we carry out an experimental investigation on quantum randomness certification through a symmetric informationally complete positive operator-valued measurement, which in principle can certify the maximum randomness through an entangled qubit. We observe the quantum nonlocal correlations that are close to the theoretical values. In the future, this work can provide a valuable reference for the research on the limit of randomness certification.展开更多
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China,Grant No.2020YFA0712700the National Natural Science Foundation of China‘Mathematical Basic Theory of Quantum Computing’special project,Grant No.12341103。
文摘We connect magic(non-stabilizer)states,symmetric informationally complete positive operator valued measures(SIC-POVMs),and mutually unbiased bases(MUBs)in the context of group frames,and study their interplay.Magic states are quantum resources in the stabilizer formalism of quantum computation.SIC-POVMs and MUBs are fundamental structures in quantum information theory with many applications in quantum foundations,quantum state tomography,and quantum cryptography,etc.In this work,we study group frames constructed from some prominent magic states,and further investigate their applications.Our method exploits the orbit of discrete Heisenberg-Weyl group acting on an initial fiducial state.We quantify the distance of the group frames from SIC-POVMs and MUBs,respectively.As a simple corollary,we reproduce a complete family of MUBs of any prime dimensional system by introducing the concept of MUB fiducial states,analogous to the well-known SIC-POVM fiducial states.We present an intuitive and direct construction of MUB fiducial states via quantum T-gates,and demonstrate that for the qubit system,there are twelve MUB fiducial states,which coincide with the H-type magic states.We compare MUB fiducial states and SIC-POVM fiducial states from the perspective of magic resource for stabilizer quantum computation.We further pose the challenging issue of identifying all MUB fiducial states in general dimensions.
基金financially supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(Nos.2018YFA0306400 and 2017YFA0304100)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11774180 and 61590932)+1 种基金the Leading-edge Technology Program of Jiangsu Natural Science Foundation(No.BK20192001)the Postgraduate Research and Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province(No.KYCX18_0915)
文摘Nonlocal correlations observed from entangled quantum particles imply the existence of intrinsic randomness.Normally, locally projective measurements performed on a two-qubit entangled state can only certify one-bit randomness at most, while non-projective measurement can certify more randomness with the same quantum resources. In this Letter, we carry out an experimental investigation on quantum randomness certification through a symmetric informationally complete positive operator-valued measurement, which in principle can certify the maximum randomness through an entangled qubit. We observe the quantum nonlocal correlations that are close to the theoretical values. In the future, this work can provide a valuable reference for the research on the limit of randomness certification.
