Economical ontological models for discrete quantum systems

I use the recently proposed framework of ontological models (N. Harrigan, T. Rudolph, and S. Aaronson, e-print arXiv:0709.1149) to obtain economical models for the results of tomographically complete sets of measurements on finite-dimensional quantum systems. I describe a procedure that simplifies the models by decreasing the number of necessary ontic states and present an explicit model with just 33 ontic states for a qutrit.