Lars Brink and SIC-POVMs
- 9 December 2024
- journal article
- Published by World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd in International Journal of Modern Physics A
- Vol. 39 (36)
Abstract
The notion of SIC-POVMs comes from quantum theory, and they were not on the horizon when I was Lars Brink’s student in the early 1980s. In the summer of 2022, I told Lars that I know how to use number theoretical insights to construct SIC-POVMs in any Hilbert space of dimension [ ], and that the construction provides a geometric setting for some deep number theoretical conjectures. I will give a sketch of this development, of what it was like to be Lars’ student, and of what his reaction to our construction was.Keywords
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