Equiangular lines, mutually unbiased bases, and spin models

  • Authors:
  • Chris Godsil;Aidan Roy

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada;Institute for Quantum Information Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

  • Venue:
  • European Journal of Combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We use difference sets to construct interesting sets of lines in complex space. Using (v,k,1)-difference sets, we obtain k^2-k+1 equiangular lines in C^k when k-1 is a prime power. Using semiregular relative difference sets with parameters (k,n,k,@l) we construct sets of n+1 mutually unbiased bases in C^k. We show how to construct these difference sets from commutative semifields and that all known maximal sets of mutually unbiased bases can be obtained in this way, resolving a conjecture about the monomiality of maximal sets. We also relate mutually unbiased bases to spin models.