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Feb 13, 2023 at 15:59 comment added Ian Gershon Teixeira @LSpice Back in November 2021 I was think a lot about what makes the Pauli matrices special, including the generalized ones used in quantum computing for prime power qudits. I decided that one property which especially stuck out to me was that they form a basis and simultaneously they (projectively) form a finite group. I decided to ask MO if they were the minimal such object/saturated a bound for such behavior. To my amazement by the next day I had a wonderful answer from Frieder Ladisch! I was looking over it this morning bc I'm about to post to MSE something related and I made a small edit.
Feb 13, 2023 at 15:52 comment added LSpice The interesting question is over a year old, but back on the front page for some reason (and not because it's unanswered, since @FriederLadisch gave a very illuminating answer below), so I'll ask while it's here: where did this condition come from?
Feb 13, 2023 at 15:49 history edited LSpice CC BY-SA 4.0
`\operatorname`, while this is on the front page
Feb 13, 2023 at 15:33 history edited Ian Gershon Teixeira CC BY-SA 4.0
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Nov 14, 2021 at 19:28 vote accept Ian Gershon Teixeira
Nov 13, 2021 at 18:12 answer added Frieder Ladisch timeline score: 5
Nov 12, 2021 at 16:24 history asked Ian Gershon Teixeira CC BY-SA 4.0