New construction of mutually unbiased bases for odd-dimensional state space

Abstract

We study the construction of mutually unbiased bases in Hilbert space for composite dimensions d which are not prime powers. We explore the results for composite dimensions which are true for prime power dimensions. And then provide a method for selecting mutually unbiased vectors from the eigenvectors of generalized Pauli matrices to construct mutually unbiased bases. In particular, we present four mutually unbiased bases in C15.