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Experimental Demonstration of Inequivalent Mutually Unbiased Bases
Wen-Zhe Yan1,2, Yunting Li3,4,5, Zhibo Hou1,2,6
1CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
Quantum measurements based on mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) play crucial roles in foundational studies and quantum information processing. It is known that there exist inequivalent MUBs, but little is known about their operational distinctions, not to say experimental demonstration. In this Letter, by virtue of a simple estimation problem, we experimentally demonstrate the operational distinctions between inequivalent triples of MUBs in dimension 4 based on high-precision photonic systems. The experimental estimation fidelities coincide well with the theoretical predictions with only 0.16% average deviation, which is 25 times less than the difference (4.1%) between the maximum estimation fidelity and the minimum estimation fidelity. Our experiments clearly demonstrate that inequivalent MUBs have different information extraction capabilities and different merits for quantum information processing.
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