Zhu, Huangjun (2016). Permutation Symmetry Determines the Discrete Wigner Function. Phys. Rev. Lett., 116 (4). COLLEGE PK: AMER PHYSICAL SOC. ISSN 1079-7114
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The Wigner function provides a useful quasiprobability representation of quantum mechanics, with applications in various branches of physics. Many nice properties of the Wigner function are intimately connected with the high symmetry of the underlying operator basis composed of phase point operators: any pair of phase point operators can be transformed to any other pair by a unitary symmetry transformation. We prove that, in the discrete scenario, this permutation symmetry is equivalent to the symmetry group being a unitary 2 design. Such a highly symmetric representation can only appear in odd prime power dimensions besides dimensions 2 and 8. It suffices to single out a unique discrete Wigner function among all possible quasiprobability representations. In the course of our study, we show that this discrete Wigner function is uniquely determined by Clifford covariance, while no Wigner function is Clifford covariant in any even prime power dimension.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-286971 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.040501 | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Phys. Rev. Lett. | ||||||||
| Volume: | 116 | ||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||
| Date: | 2016 | ||||||||
| Publisher: | AMER PHYSICAL SOC | ||||||||
| Place of Publication: | COLLEGE PK | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1079-7114 | ||||||||
| Language: | English | ||||||||
| Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||
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| Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/28697 |
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