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Universality of Weyl unitaries
- Source :
- Linear Algebra and its Applications. 634:57-76
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2022.
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Abstract
- Weyl's unitary matrices, which were introduced in Weyl's 1927 paper [12] on group theory and quantum mechanics, are p × p unitary matrices given by the diagonal matrix whose entries are the p-th roots of unity and the cyclic shift matrix. Weyl's unitaries, which we denote by u and v , satisfy u p = v p = 1 p (the p × p identity matrix) and the commutation relation u v = ζ v u , where ζ is a primitive p-th root of unity. We prove that Weyl's unitary matrices are universal in the following sense: if u and v are any d × d unitary matrices such that u p = v p = 1 d and u v = ζ v u , then there exists a unital completely positive linear map ϕ : M p ( C ) → M d ( C ) such that ϕ ( u ) = u and ϕ ( v ) = v . We also show, moreover, that any two pairs of p-th order unitary matrices that satisfy the Weyl commutation relation are completely order equivalent, but that the assertion for three such unitaries fails. There is a standard tensor-product construction involving the Pauli matrices that produces irreducible sequences of anticommuting selfadjoint unitary matrices of arbitrary length. The matrices in this sequence are called Weyl-Brauer unitary matrices [11, Definition 6.63] . This standard construction is generalised herein to the case p ≥ 3 , producing a sequence of matrices that we also call Weyl-Brauer unitary matrices. We show that the Weyl-Brauer unitary matrices, as a g-tuple, are extremal in their matrix range, using recent ideas from noncommutative convexity theory.
- Subjects :
- Numerical Analysis
Pure mathematics
Algebra and Number Theory
Pauli matrices
Mathematics::Operator Algebras
Root of unity
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Identity matrix
010103 numerical & computational mathematics
Unitary matrix
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Linear map
Matrix (mathematics)
symbols.namesake
symbols
Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
Order (group theory)
Geometry and Topology
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Group theory
Mathematics
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- ISSN :
- 00243795
- Volume :
- 634
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Linear Algebra and its Applications
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........2be14575858c5cb4c081191142329bff