Economical ontological models for discrete quantum systems

Abstract

I use the recently proposed framework of ontological models [Harrigan et al., arXiv:0709.1149v2] to obtain economical models for results of tomographically complete sets of measurements on finite-dimensional quantum systems. I describe a procedure that simplifies the models by decreasing the number of necessary ontic states, and present an explicit model with just 33 ontic states for a qutrit.

6 pages, 2 figures. v2: erroneous claim removed, compression method improved, reference added

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