Zauner's weak conjecture on symmetric informationally complete measurements

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For each positive integer d≥2d\geq 2, a SIC POVM is a set of d2d^2 rank-one positive operators on Cd\mathbb{C}^d that forms an informationally complete symmetric positive operator-valued measure; equivalently, unit vectors wi∈Cdw_i\in\mathbb{C}^d generate a SIC POVM when ∣⟨wi,wj⟩∣2=1d+1|\langle w_i,w_j\rangle|^2=\frac{1}{d+1} for all i≠ji\ne j. Zauner's weak conjecture. For every positive integer d≥2d\geq 2, there exist d2d^2 unit vectors {wi}i=1d2⊆Cd\{w_i\}_{i=1}^{d^2}\subseteq\mathbb{C}^d such that

∣⟨wi,wj⟩∣2=1d+1|\langle w_i,w_j\rangle|^2=\frac{1}{d+1}

for all i≠ji\ne j. This is the SIC POVM existence problem. It remains open in general, although concrete solutions are known in many dimensions, including d=1d=1 through 2121, 2424, 2828, 3030, 3131, and 3535.

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Satish K. Pandey, Vern I. Paulsen, Jitendra Prakash and Mizanur Rahaman, “Entanglement Breaking Rank and the existence of SIC POVMs”, arXiv:1805.04583 (2020).

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