Abstract

The history of complementary observables and mutual unbiased bases is shortly reviewed. A characterization is given in terms of conditional entropy of subalgebras due to Connes and Størmer. The extension of complementarity to noncommutative subalgebras is considered as well. Possible complementary decompositions of a four-level quantum system are described and a characterization of the Bell basis is obtained: The MASA generated by the Bell basis is complementary to both M2(ℂ) tensor factors.

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