Empirical/CSD: the d=3 SIC-POVM (Hesse) and its Born weights as Kähler volumes #
Category: 3-Local (CSD-ontic layer; the first symmetric non-qubit (N = 3)
entry in the volume-frequency series — the genuine dimension-3 SIC).
The d=3 SIC-POVM (symmetric informationally-complete POVM in dimension three) is the
Hesse configuration: the 9 = d² Weyl–Heisenberg orbit states of the fiducial
f = (0, 1, −1)/√2, ψ_{a,b} = Xᵃ Zᵇ f with X the cyclic shift |j⟩ ↦ |j+1⟩, Z the
clock |j⟩ ↦ ωʲ|j⟩, ω = e^{2πi/3}. Concretely
ψ_{0,b} ∝ (0, ωᵇ, −ω²ᵇ), ψ_{1,b} ∝ (−ω²ᵇ, 0, ωᵇ), ψ_{2,b} ∝ (ωᵇ, −ω²ᵇ, 0)
(each × 1/√2). The effects are E_{a,b} = (1/3)|ψ_{a,b}⟩⟨ψ_{a,b}|; it is a genuine
POVM because the orbit is a tight frame, ∑_{a,b}|ψ_{a,b}⟩⟨ψ_{a,b}| = 3 I₃, so
∑ E_{a,b} = I₃. It is symmetric in the strong (SIC) sense |⟨ψⱼ,ψₖ⟩|² = 1/4 for
j ≠ k (sic3_inner_normSq), the dimension-3 analogue of the qubit tetrahedron.
This file:
- builds
sic3POVM : POVM 3 (Fin 3 × Fin 3)(ascaledRankOneEffect (1/3)helper + the Weyl–Heisenberg tight-frame completeness); - proves the equiangular SIC property
|⟨ψⱼ,ψₖ⟩|² = 1/4; - gives the closed-form Born weights
p_{a,b}(ψ) = (1/3)‖⟨ψ_{a,b}, ψ⟩‖²; - runs it through the POVM tranche:
canonicalNaimark sic3POVMis the dilation, andsic3_born_frequency_volumelands the nine outcome frequencies as Fubini–Study volumes on the dilated onticΣ' = ℂℙ²⁶— carving-free, Gleason-free.
The first symmetric qutrit entry; the dilation lives on ℂℙ^{N·|ι|−1} = ℂℙ²⁶
(N = 3, |ι| = 9). The capstone routes through the hpos-free engine
(povm_born_frequency_volume_uncond, LF4/BornRegionUncond.lean), so no genericity
hypothesis on the dilated state is carried (2026-06-11 migration).
Source #
Zauner 1999 (thesis); Renes, Blume-Kohout, Scott, Caves 2004, J. Math. Phys. 45, 2171 (the d=3 SIC / Hesse configuration).
Constants and square-root facts #
1/√2.
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ω = e^{2πi/3} = −1/2 + i√3/2.
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ω² = e^{−2πi/3} = −1/2 − i√3/2.
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The 9 SIC fiducial states (Weyl–Heisenberg orbit) #
The amplitudes of the nine SIC states ψ_{a,b} (a, b ∈ Fin 3) on the
computational basis. ψ_{a,b}[j] = ω^{(j−a)b}·f_{j−a} with f = (0, 1, −1)/√2.
Equations
- CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.sicAmp 0 0 0 = 0
- CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.sicAmp 0 0 1 = CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.cc
- CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.sicAmp 0 0 2 = -CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.cc
- CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.sicAmp 0 1 0 = 0
- CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.sicAmp 0 1 1 = CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.cc * CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.om
- CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.sicAmp 0 1 2 = -CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.cc * CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.om2
- CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.sicAmp 0 2 0 = 0
- CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.sicAmp 0 2 1 = CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.cc * CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.om2
- CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.sicAmp 0 2 2 = -CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.cc * CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.om
- CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.sicAmp 1 0 0 = -CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.cc
- CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.sicAmp 1 0 1 = 0
- CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.sicAmp 1 0 2 = CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.cc
- CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.sicAmp 1 1 0 = -CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.cc * CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.om2
- CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.sicAmp 1 1 1 = 0
- CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.sicAmp 1 1 2 = CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.cc * CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.om
- CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.sicAmp 1 2 0 = -CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.cc * CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.om
- CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.sicAmp 1 2 1 = 0
- CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.sicAmp 1 2 2 = CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.cc * CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.om2
- CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.sicAmp 2 0 0 = CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.cc
- CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.sicAmp 2 0 1 = -CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.cc
- CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.sicAmp 2 0 2 = 0
- CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.sicAmp 2 1 0 = CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.cc * CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.om
- CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.sicAmp 2 1 1 = -CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.cc * CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.om2
- CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.sicAmp 2 1 2 = 0
- CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.sicAmp 2 2 0 = CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.cc * CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.om2
- CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.sicAmp 2 2 1 = -CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.cc * CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.om
- CSD.Empirical.CSDBridge.SIC3Volume.sicAmp 2 2 2 = 0
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The nine SIC states as unit vectors in ℂ³.
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- One or more equations did not get rendered due to their size.
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The Weyl–Heisenberg tight-frame relation and the POVM #
∑_{a,b} |ψ_{a,b}⟩⟨ψ_{a,b}| = 3 I₃ — the tight-frame relation making the SIC a POVM.
The (a,b)-th SIC effect E_{a,b} = (1/3)|ψ_{a,b}⟩⟨ψ_{a,b}|.
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- One or more equations did not get rendered due to their size.
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The d=3 SIC-POVM {E_{a,b} = (1/3)|ψ_{a,b}⟩⟨ψ_{a,b}|} — the Hesse symmetric
informationally-complete qutrit measurement.
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The equiangular SIC property #
The Born weights as Kähler volumes #
The canonical Naimark dilation of the d=3 SIC POVM.
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The d=3 SIC-POVM Born weights as Kähler volumes (the capstone). Instantiating
povm_born_frequency_volume_uncond at the Hesse SIC: i.i.d. Fubini–Study trials on the
dilated ontic Σ' = ℂℙ²⁶ have each SIC outcome's empirical frequency converge, on a single
almost-sure event, to the SIC Born weight p_{a,b}(ψ) = ⟨ψ, E_{a,b} ψ⟩ = (1/3)‖⟨ψ_{a,b},ψ⟩‖²
— realised as a sum of Fubini–Study volumes of the dilated barycentric cells. The first
symmetric non-qubit entry in the volume-frequency series; carving-free, Gleason-free,
and (since the 2026-06-11 hpos migration) with no genericity hypothesis on the dilated
state — notably, ψ ⊥ ψ_{a,b} (a SIC outcome weight exactly zero) is covered.