Constructions of mutually unbiased bases
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Two orthonormal bases B and B of a d-dimensional complex inner-product space are called mutually unbiased if and only if |b|b|2 = 1/d holds for all b B and b B. The size of any set containing painvise mutually unbiased bases of d cannot exceed d + 1. If d is a power of a prime, then extremal sets containing d+1 mutually unbiased bases are known to exist. We give a simplified proof of this fact based on the estimation of exponential sums. We discuss conjectures and open problems concerning the maximal number of mutually unbiased bases for arbitrary dimensions. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004.