Year: 2024
Type: article
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 [Formula: see text], 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.
Author: Ingemar Bengtsson
Institutions: Stockholm University, AlbaNova
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4403453898