PIRSA:08100071 Conference Quantum Information Quantum Foundations

DOI10.48660/08100071

Conference/School: Seeking SICs: A Workshop on Quantum Frames and Designs - 2008

Scott, A. (2008). Unitary design: bounds on their size. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/08100071

Scott, Andrew. Unitary design: bounds on their size. Perimeter Institute, Oct. 27, 2008, https://pirsa.org/08100071 

@misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:08100071,
  doi = {10.48660/08100071},
  url = {https://pirsa.org/08100071},
  author = {Scott, Andrew},
  keywords = {Quantum Information, Quantum Foundations},
  language = {en},
  title = {Unitary design: bounds on their size},
  publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
  year = {2008},
  month = {oct},
  note = {PIRSA:08100071 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
}

Abstract

As a means of exactly derandomizing certain quantum information processing tasks, unitary designs have become an important concept in quantum information theory. A unitary design is a collection of unitary matrices that approximates the entire unitary group, much like a spherical design approximates the entire unit sphere. We use irreducible representations of the unitary group to find a general lower bound on the size of a unitary t-design in U(d), for any d and t. The tightness of these bounds is then considered, where specific unitary 2-designs are introduced that are analogous to SIC-POVMs and complete sets of MUBs in the complex projective case. Additionally, we catalogue the known constructions of unitary t-designs and give an upper bound on the size of the smallest weighted unitary t-design in U(d). This is joint work with Aidan Roy (Calgary): \'Unitary designs and codes,\' arXiv:0809.3813.

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