Simple Minimal Informationally Complete Measurements for Qudits

Simple minimal but informationally complete positive operator-valued measures are constructed out of the expectation-value representation for qudits. Upon suitable modification, the procedure transforms any set of d2 linearly independent hermitean operators into such an observable. Minor changes in the construction lead to closed-form expressions for informationally complete positive measures in the spaces ℂd.

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