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one instance of '2'. But why do we need a 2 x 2 density matrix to capture that? Surely the probabilities add to one, so a single number would suffice to capture the state probabilities? Even if you want to explicitly (and redundantly) write the two spin probabilities, you still only need two numbers. So why are four numbers needed, and why organized in two rows, two cols? My objective in this paragraph is not to press on that specific question, but rather to illustrate the type of shortcoming that besets this article, and the
Example section provides the most concrete instances.
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or one oriented horizontally, or at any angle in between. We can ask whether the photon will pass through a left-handed circular polarizer, or a right-handed one. In each experiment, there will be some probability of success, and the probability of failure will be 1 minus that of course, but that probability of success can be different for each measurement. The remarkable thing is that the probabilities for all the different possible measurements hang together so well — that all the information we need to compute them fits into a single 2 × 2 matrix.
6480:(e) The example could be further clarified to show how it exemplifies "The density matrix is a representation of a linear operator called the density operator. The density matrix is obtained from the density operator by choice of basis in the underlying space." What is the "density operator" for this example, and how is the density matrix derived from it? I suspect this relates to your comment "matrix is written in the basis of energy eigenstates.", though neither energy nor eigenstates are mentioned in the article.
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of thermodynamics requiring the entropy to increase. You can find this under
Feynman's set of lectures on statistical mechanics. Two things to note: 1) The entropy defined by density matrices for single particles stays constant under Schroedinger's time evolution and when measured (because it is always pure), in total agreement with Hamiltonian dynamics. 2) The same entropy defined by density matrices, but this time for ensembles, increases, in agreement with thermodynamics but against Hamiltonian dynamics.
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indivisible particle / system, then a mixed state makes no sense; rather, a single particle can only be in a pure state, and merely changed from one into another by a measurement. It is particularly confusing because of the terminology being overloaded to mean something completely different. In this case, we tend to denote the pure state of a single particle, but specifically a linear combination of the eigenbasis of an incompatible measuring operator, as a "mixed state".
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7075:, one small piece at a time. I often read wikipedia with the intent of finding errors, or unclear statements, and then either research the topic - or if I already know, rephrase or add text to lower the bar for others to obtain the knowledge. So this makes me a bit sad... I guess, that my real only response could be: If you want an easy and probably adequate intro to this specific topic that this article is about, then see:
6477:(d) what do the specific example values mean? In other words, how do the values in the slots of the matrix correspond to the values mentioned in the main narrative? Obviously there are "0.5" entries in the "before" matrix, and there are "50%"s mentioned in the main narrative, but for two different quantities. One of which is probability, which you say is not what the matrix captures directly.
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6506:, among others), but I've never had the time. Apparently it's even worse than I thought, if it's this confusing! I'm not quite sure what your questions are asking for (which is probably an indication that the current article is so confusing it's hard to ask clear questions about it). The matrix in the figure is two-dimensional — i.e., a square rather than a cube, a
4899:. This lead, particularly the first sentence, failed this requirement to an almost comical degree. I have rearranged the text and streamlined it to improve readability without changing any of the content. However, someone should take this even further and replace some of the technical terminology in the last paragraph by a more accessible discussion.
7037:) before reading about how to handle quantum states that are noisy, statistical ensembles of a large number of states, suffered from decoherence, et.c. (i.e. density matrices). That said, I have only skimmed the article. Finding what seems to me to be an error in the intro, which was corrected (see above). · · ·
1128:"There is a theorem stating that a system with a Hamiltonian, be it classical or quantum, has an entropy that is never-increasing". I am awfully confused about the details of this theorem. The universe is a system with a Hamiltonian -- do you agree? The universe has an entropy that increases -- do you agree?
3845:, which the link defines as all the elements are greater than zero. This is clearly not true of a density matrix. Also shouldn't there be a condition on the density matrix that keeps the coherences (off-diagonals) smaller than the populations (on-diagonal elements). Otherwise the matrix isn't physical?--
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Hmm. Here you essentially give me the choice of either answering, or refraining from making further updates. What can I say? This wikipedia-thing is a community project, and in that regard, it is like the Linux operating system during its infancy, when only unpaid nerds were contributing: We build it
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A density matrix tells us more than the probabilities for what might happen in a single experiment. It's a catalogue of probabilities for all the measurements we can imagine! (See the "Measurement" section.) We can ask whether the photon will get through a linear polarized filter oriented vertically,
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For example (!), when I ask why does the example show a 2D matrix, with 2x2 entries, your response "because photons spin-1" omits saying why "photons spin-1" has anything to do with 2D or 2x2. Now, I had already inferred that photons having a spin property which can take on one of two states explains
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of the idea of a PDF, with the term "density" hanging around for historical reasons. The indices simply label whatever basis the matrix is written in, for example the basis of energy eigenstates. The "set of density matrices" is exactly what it says on the tin: the set of all matrices which meet the
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would be on the line between R and L, four-fifths of the way towards R, if memory serves. Suppose you put light through a linear polarizer that allowed (1,0,0) on the sphere to pass 100%, and (-1,0,0) on the sphere is blocked 100%. I bet the intensity fraction passing through for light at (x,y,z) on
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I'm not sure whether I understood the difference between a superposition and a mixed state - is it true or not that a superposition means that the photon is (in some way) in both quantum states at once until measurement, but in a mixed state, the photon is physically in one of the pure states but we
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I'm sorry I still don't believe what you said. In fact, to be honest, I don't understand what you said about the relation between ensembles and factorizations. I can't believe that it's standard; if indeed it were standard it would be easy to come up with a source in the form page X of Y which says
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I disagree with the prescription, even though it is technically correct. The original explanation is clearly talking about pure ensemble states being converted into a mixed ensemble state by measurement. It might have been motivated by hindsight. If, instead, the measurement had been conducted on an
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Third, in the case of entangled states, it should explain exactly why a system cannot be in a pure state. It seems to me that entangled objects either share the same quantum state or have states that sum to zero. Either way, entangled objects may have pure or mixed states. I don't know if I'm right
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two-dimensional. Quantum mechanics uses linear operators, and the action of a linear operator upon a basis for a vector space is naturally written as a matrix. One can then ask, "Well, why does quantum mechanics use linear operators?" And, sooner or later, that series of "why?" questions will hit a
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Hi, surely there is some thing missing in the text and is bringing confusion to the reader. Confusion is arising because explanation started with the passing of vertical polarized through a circular polarizer as given below: "If we pass (|R\rangle +|L\rangle )/{\sqrt {2}} polarized light through a
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There is a theorem stating that a system with a
Hamiltonian, be it classical or quantum, has an entropy that is never-increasing (luckily, it tends to be constant). The immediate consequence is that the entropy defined by density matrices would then be never-increasing, directly against the 2nd law
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so what's the problem with self adjoint operators as observables? in the finite dim case, the C* algebraic and SA operator formulations are the same. if one is to completely abandon the SA operator formulation, how does one come up with the C*-algebra of observables in the first place? As stated in
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Yes, I have become lazy during the last few months and stopped logging in. But here I am with my accountable account. I am not sure how to read your comment - I am not sure what to say in response. (WP:NOFORUM or whatever its called might be relevant.) However: 1) if its not a quantum system, them
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Cool, I think I get it now :D One clarification: when you say "Unlike linearly polarized light, passes through a polarizer at any angle", do you mean that it all passes through or half of it passes through? Also, maybe mixed states should be mentioned in the lead by name - I realise now that this
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Frankly, I don't believe this is true. (If the projections are assumed pairwise orthogonal, of coure it's just the spectral theorem). This claim would imply that all probability measures on the compact convex set of states, supported on the extreme points, are "unitarily equivalent" provided they
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It states in the context that "Therefore a pure state may be converted into a mixture by a measurement, but a proper mixture can never be converted into a pure state." So can anybody comment on how to produce a pure state? Reducing temperature to zero, or get Bosons under critical temperature, any
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Density matrices are a semi-advanced topic in quantum mechanics; at least in my day, an introductory course wasn't likely to cover them. So, most explanations that one will find are likely to presume at least a moderate background in mathematics, and questions like "why 2D" simply won't be on the
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I think most physicists think that mixed states are not a truly fundamental part of quantum physics or part of our universe, but rather a convenient tool to keep track of uncertainties that are there in various realistic situations. But I'm not sure that's universally agreed...starts getting into
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There is another theorem, the very important
Fluctuation-Dissipation theorem, of thermodynamics, that governs the entropy increasing process. Actually, from the random fluctuations, there is no reason why entropy cannot spontaneously decrease. Indeed, it actually does do that from time to time in
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I agree that QM is complex and requires lots of reading. It may be even worse than that: even after reading all of the QM garden, one still may not really understand much of it. But, yes, this is not a forum. As to whether you corrected a problem in the article, I will have to disagree, for your
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2. “The indices simply label whatever basis the matrix is written in, for example the basis of energy eigenstates.” I may be missing something, but this appears to say that the indices of the matrix work like indices of a matrix, although I am not quite sure how to parse “label whatever basis”.
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CSTAR: ok, obviously they're not measures in the measure theoretic sense, but one can see the formal resemblence. and they are called quantum probability measures (was probably your contribution, if i have to guess) in their own right anyway. calling them just that makes the heuristic comment on
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Actually, it's more complicated then that. For uncountably infinite dimensional systems, you can't write the operator as a matrix, even if you have a 'basis' .... so the term 'operator' covers a much more general case than the term 'matrix' does ... this article should actually be called
Density
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one should not try to explain it as a quantum system. 2) "...but my point is that the existing explanation isn't detailed enough" - this article can not be read in isolation, it requires prior knowledge of other topics. It is probably a good idea to start reading about normal "pure state" (e.g.
6660:'s recent improvements, I'm willing to upgrade my estimation of the article to "basically fine, as far as it goes". Bits here and there can doubtless be tuned up, the later sections might benefit from expansion, and some topics could still be added, but I think the page is now more in line with
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you are right. i wish i had read the talk page a few hours ago. this entire page is a disaster, and it's wrong. it shouldn't be using 'little p' to represent the general density operator. every definition i've seen leaves it as a dyadic product which you can determine will sum to one after some
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Well, a diagonal density matrix isn't really a "classical state"; it's a quantum state that is diagonal in the given basis (and would generally have coherences with respect to a rotated basis). I'll go back and read some standard references like
Schlosshauer; maybe that'll suggest some phrasing
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The article says that the density matrix was first developed by von
Neumann, Landau and Bloch in 1927, but Bloch's articles only go as far back as 1945 on ISI web of knowledge, and I can't find anything by von Neumann. Can someone please provide the references for where the density matrix first
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where μ is a probability measure on the compact convex space of states. We can regard the measure μ as an ensemble representing the state τ. The non-uniqueness follows from the failure of unique representation by probability measures, even probability measures which are supported on the set of
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here is a more elementary issue, but could also be a problem. as stated in article, if your observables are compact operators, then the states are precisely what's defined in the article. but if you wanna define a quantum operation in the
Schrodinger picture, then it's a map between trace-class
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I completely agree: the time evolution of a density matrix is, in general, more general that the von
Neumann equation. And this time evolution simply “generates“ density matrices/operators (or mixed states) from pure states. Just adding “Lindblad equation“ to the further references list, is not
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The operator is the actual mathematical object, where the matrix is one of its many possible representations. Infact, in a different basis, the same operator is represented by a different matrix. This is true for finite and infinite dimensions. So I suggest to change the name of the article to
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In fact, if you take the unique positive square root, you get a positive operator. The columns of this operator are not going to be orthogonal (except in some trivial cases). How do you get an ensemble of orthonormal states. Do you mean the spectral decomposition of A? Could you please be more
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I again appreciate your comments, and candor! You ask what I'm looking for: I'm looking for the article to have explanations that are digestible without knowledge of concepts that are more advanced than the article at hand. Where an example is given, for it to be useful it can't just describe
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here. Entropy can't go down. But wait, my freezer lowers the entropy of water by making it into ice! How does that work? Well, it decreases the entropy of the water, but increases the entropy in other places (outside the freezer and inside the power plant making the electricity). In the light
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The whole "C*-algebraic formulation of density states" section seems pretty unnecessary to me - right now, it's a lot of jargon that doesn't even make sense to a physicist. Also, a statement like "It is now generally accepted that the description of quantum mechanics in which all self-adjoint
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which cryptically suggests "The interior points are called the mixed states."... but doesn't explain further. Do you know how a mixed state would be represented on a Bloch sphere? I'm guessing that your unpolarized light example would be right in the centre of the sphere... But how would you
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The page includes the usual method of obtaining the density matrix from spinors but does not show the less well known method of obtaining spinors from density matrices. I'll go ahead and add it in. If you haven't seen the method, see Julian
Schwinger's "Quantum Kinematics and Dynamics" or
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my proposal is that, if we do propose a rewrite, we adopt a more mathematical notation. i don't mind either McWeeny (1955) and Lowdin (1955). i found davidson to be a great source that adopted McWeeny and Lowdin for bra-ket, but it's not a drop-in replacement for what we have right now.
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It may be better to alter the first sentence to say that the density matrix describes a state prior to measurement, which in practice is always a mixed state, since measurement can never be guaranteed to exactly align with the singularly pure aspect (orientation) of the state prepared.
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So are the values at the coordinates of the matrix samples of some large multi-dimensional probability density function, within which one can interpolate? Or are the values at each matrix coordinate actually independent probability density functions in their own right?
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Thanks for explaining it to me! This seems quite a good way a writing an article - a knowledgable person repeatedly rewriting it until the beginner finally understands :) There is one sentence that's still a bit unclear "By contrast, an example of a mixed state would be
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But this isn't true. To take a trivial example; any state ρ is representable as a trivial convex combination of 1 times itself ρ= 1 × ρ (cardinbality 1) and if it's a non-extremal state, at least one other non-trivial convex combination of two other states (cardinality
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True. How about, "we know the matrix is gradually becoming diagonal"? We do know that there is a transition period between the existence of a quantum state and its replacement by a classical state (the diagonal matrix). Collapse doesn't happen in a femtosecond, right?
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Why? Ensembles have the structure of a convex set. One might naturally associate to an ensemble to a probability measure supported on the convex set of density operators, but from there to the characterization given in the most recent edit, is in my view unjustified.
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circular polarizer which allows either only |R\rangle polarized light, or only |L\rangle polarized light, intensity would be reduced by half in both cases. This may make it seem like half of the photons are in state |R\rangle and the other half in state |L\rangle ."
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Mixed states redirects here, but I can't find any definition here of what a mixed state is, or an explanation of what a mixed state physically means. Could someone who understands it better than me either add one, or redirect mixed state to somewhere that explains
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of density matrices, to give us an idea of what that looks like in practice. Also, the article uses "convex" seven times, as though it's important, but never explains why it's important, so perhaps the significance to the example could be pointed out.
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in the formulation of my comments above, this is precisely the non uniqueness of square root factorization of positive semidefinite operators restated in this context. take for instance the finite dim case. given a mixed state described by the ensemble
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I will be incorporating the ideas from here soon. Giving thought as to the implications on Hamiltonian dynamics, entropy, how single particle dynamics relates to the ensemble and whether it can be mathematically smoothed over, is returning headaches.
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CSTAR, i don't know, man, it's probably in most linear algebra books. It's pretty standard. For instance, Choi used this to show how the Kraus operators of a CP map are related by a unitary matrix. Again, the claim is simply the following: Let
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This is also explained in the article it seems. The section "Example: light polarization" contains an explanation of this (see esp. the last sentence in that section). So, it seems the intro is in contradiction with the rest of the article?
5605:. The Von Neumann entropy is zero for this case (you can regard this density matrix to have an eigenvalue of 1, with the rest zero). On the other hand looking at the right hand side we can obtain a non zero result by expanding (for example):
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doesn't mention them at all. As I recall, I didn't encounter them until my third year of undergrad. So, they're treated as a more advanced topic than solving the harmonic oscillator, for example, but not nearly as much as many other things.
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So far this article has ignored the idea of various orders of density matrices. Also, some of the particular expressions are in fact for reduced density operators where the true expressions for the reduced density *matrices* is not given.
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is absolutely standard, used in tens of thousands of physics papers, and if this article does not show density matrices using it then it is doing a disservice to our readers. Whatever problems the article has, that's not among them.
1227:"But this is not correct: Both |R\rangle and |L\rangle photons are partly absorbed by a vertical linear polarizer, but the (|R\rangle +|L\rangle )/{\sqrt {2}} light will pass through that polarizer with no absorption whatsoever."
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or wrong, but my point is that the existing explanation isn't detailed enough. If it were, then I would understand it. Isn't the point of a physics article to explain the physics, rather than use words in vague or confusing ways?
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between such functions and density operators. A probability mesure on states as mentioned in my remark above (in this talk page) is a probability measure in the classical sense, that is, a set function on the σ-algebra of Borel
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And what are these "extreme points" and entire "set of density matrices" that we already meet in the 3rd sentence? What is even a point in this context? Perhaps a particular coordinate of the matrix? But then what is extreme?
4618:! to put it in another way: a pure state is a normalized, positive, weakly continuous functional on the kinematical algebra which is represented by the scalar product of a unique vector in Hilbert Space so how can we represent
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Quite briefly, I don't believe it. Is there a citation? The assumption is that ensembles are in 1-1 correspondence with operators of the form $ A U$ where $ A$ is non-negative trace class of trace $ 1$ and $ U$ unitary.
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i am hoping 'semi-advanced' is your way of conveying subtly flexing your proficiency. as someone with a better math background who had less trouble with the Lowdin or McWeeny definitions, i find the bra-ket analogues less
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364:"It is now generally accepted" again! This is not good writing style. Was there a vote that I missed on that acceptance? ** However at last these hidden arguments against the "adjoint operator style" should be made clear.
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Löwdin, Per-Olov (1955). "Quantum theory of many-particle systems. I. Physical interpretations by means of density matrices, natural spin-orbitals, and convergence problems in the method of configurational interaction".
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If the other system is a known state, ie together they make a pure entangled state, then per def they are a pure state. The intro makes it sound like this is not the case. Perhaps a better phrasing is something like..
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the sphere (or inside the sphere) is x/2+0.5. But that's just a guess. If you can find the book "Density Matrix Theory and Applications" it has a good simple discussion of the Bloch sphere interior as I recall. :-) --
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edited sentence is no clearer than the one it replaced. I think some parts of all the QM articles will have to wait for an expert to come along, someone who can explain to those of us who want better explanations.
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I'm assuming here A = M*M. What's the ensemble (understood as some convex combination of pure states) that gives the state A? Presumably, they're related to the columns or rows of M, but I'm sorry I don't see
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I guess we're back to square 1. My original question above remains as far as I can see, unanswered: What is the relation between "square root factorizations" and ensembles? Do you have a citation for this
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Dear Unsigned editor, The article now says "Mixed states arise in quantum mechanics in two different situations: first when the preparation of the system is not fully known, and thus one must deal with a
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No, the entries in a density matrix are not probabilities or values of a probability density function, as they can be complex-valued. Instead, probabilities are calculated from a density matrix using the
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Thanks, that was quick! I'm still somewhat confused... can a single photon be in a mixed state? Or does a mixed state just mean that the beam of light contains a range of photons in different pure states?
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Any mixture of kets can be analysed by treating each ket separately. I suggest deletion. The point (about the merit of density matrices in statistical analysis) seems adequately made by the surrounding
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First, it seems to me that there is a third case of mixed states: when the system is large, hot, or otherwise only suitable for description by classical mechanics. Such a case can never be a pure state.
6263:, something like that could be a good addition, though I'd be wary of the "see the matrix gradually becoming diagonal" phrasing — "see" and "observe" are, after all, loaded words in quantum mechanics.
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The very first sentence of this topic contradicts the section on 'Pure and mixed states'. One says the density matirx describes mixed states; the other says it describes pure states or mixed.
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CSTAR, i am done with this particular discussion. one can't get much more explicit than the explanations i've given. i am sorry you're not convinced. this is completely elementary and standard.
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I don't know what you mean by "flexing"; when I wrote "semi-advanced", I meant simply what I said. One isn't likely to see density matrices in an introductory course. For example, Griffiths'
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Ok, i updated the text in the intro myself now. Why burdon others when i can do the labor myself. If you get upset about this or think i am wrong plz undo and also plz clarify. Thanks
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what i find most concerning about literature post 1970 (lecture notes and such) is the remarkably brief discussion of these important concepts with each lecturer varying in notation.
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I agree with the first comment and I do not understand what "untenable means" here. The density matrix formalism is used constantly in magnetic resonance and it's perfectly viable.
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I trust your judgement on replacements and deletions (and yes I prefer your non-normalized form of Nielsen and Chuang Theorem 2.6.) I feel I've done enough damage for one day.--
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I would suggest to include at least a reference to the Löwdin paper that explains density matrices and natural orbitals. It has helped me a lot in my PhD work. Here it is:
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Thanks, sounds like good advice. Kudos on your clear adjustment to the lead. Please smooth out any other clunky attempts I make to explain more for non-expert readers.
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doesn't yet link anywhere. I believe readers need more explanation since it's so intimately related to measurement and so often used in QM. And to define, for example
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have the same center of mass. I would be surprised f that were true in anything but the abelian case. However, if you provide me with a reference, I'll believe it.--
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It's lacking an explanation here. The two references date back to 1963 and 1972, is this "now"? or the "now" more recent? would it be possible to give an example?
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As Nielsen and Chuang point out, it is actually more convenient to absorb the probability coefficient into the state by replacing thekets with "renormalized" kets:
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I have no preference between "density matrix" and "density operator" as the article title. I don't think there's anything wrong with "density matrix", for example
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Yikes No. That article is formulated in terms of the Schrodinger picture. The dual of a quantum operation (on trace class operators) is ultraweakly continuous.--
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The "Definition" section shows how to write a density matrix in Dirac notation, and the figure caption gives two examples written as square arrays of numbers.
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Do we really want C* algebra in the wikipedia article. This seems quite technical and probably not of interest to many people. Maybe it needs its own page.
6696:"The Density Matrix in Many-Electron Quantum Mechanics. I. Generalized Product Functions. Factorization and Physical Interpretation of the Density Matrices"
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that was clear? Um, it was not clear to me. Now with that caveat, the result you are claiming is equivalent to the following: Representations of the form
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Put a beam of unpolarized light (mixed state) through a polarizer. Then you have polarized light (pure state)! Very easy. We're basically talking about the
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Yes, it's always compact in w* topology (even for C*-algebras) That's a result of fundamnetal importance. This follows from the Banach-ALouglu theorem.--
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I am also not sure how to understand your statement "a single particle can only be in a pure state". If I have a photon which is one-half of an EPR pair
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For one thing, superselection rules. For another, one needs to tie in observables to geometrical structure and symmetry; Geometrical structure as in a "
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The section has been replaced. It could be more explanatory, but as it stands is better than nothing. Those who find it useless may simply ignore it.
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are density states, then this is an ensemble (the "this" being the pair consisting of the mixture coefficients and the finite sequence of mixed states τ
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this entire page is in need of a huge rewrite. but as you've stated it's an advanced topic and resources for something like that are hard to come by.
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3. Example: light polarization. There seem to be a few bridges missing between the main narrative and the inset figure. Specifically, in the figure:
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Those are good suggestions, I tried again. Yes, unpolarized light is the center of the Bloch sphere. Light that had 80% probability of being |R: -->
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polarization? If so, I think this should be stated explicitly. If not, it might be better to change the example to one with non-orthogonal states.
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This applies to couple other related objects as well. Besides Kraus operators, purifications of a given mixed state are related in a similar way.
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The terms "density matrix" and "density operator" are used interchangeably in everyday physics. Is there some technical difference? What is it? --
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I will give this a week for feedback before I edit the article, since I am not an expert in the field, and this might include a mistake or two.
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PS If somewhat has understood mct mht's point about the relation between ensembles and factorizations and I'm just being dense, I'll listen. --
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Since a week has elapsed, I will edit the article as I indicated. But if an expert visits here, please feel free to improve what I've added.
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of mixed states" or something similar? Illustrates the basic idea that mixed states come from lack of knowledge (statistical probabilities).
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I switched Von Neumann Entropy to use ln instead of log_2. I found ln in lots of sources. It's possible that both definitions are in use. --
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article mention each other, which seems like a significant omission if this relationship is key to the significance of the Density Matrix.
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are selfadjoint projections (that are however not assumed to be pairwise orthogonal) are uniquely determined up to unitaries. That is if
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Just give me a citation (with the statement of the result about the relation between ensembles and factorizations) and I'll go away.--
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As I said, I don't see what this has to do with ensembles. Please define what you mean by an ensemble. Could you provide a citation?
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This is an ensemble representing A. Conversely revcersing the argument, one sees that any ensemble representing A has this form. --
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operators represent observables is untenable," definitely needs a reference. I will delete the section unless someone objects. --
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in all my comments, ensemble elements are pure states (vectors). i thought that was clear. that's not so in the e.g. you gave.
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OK that I believe and is easy to prove. What that has to do with representations of ensembles however, is not at all clear.--
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criteria for being valid density matrices (Hermitian, trace equal to 1). The set of all such matrices of a given size is a
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I don't think such an article would be advisable. Projective measurements should be explained in context, in the article
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for instance. There's more to it than this of course, but this is the 2 minute summary I could most quickly think of.--
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I don't see why this is necessary as density matrices apply just as well to pure states: If I have the superposition,
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Recall that an ensemble representing a density matrix is a sequence of positive rank one operators which add up to A.
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Well, the existing article is kind of a train wreck that I've wanted to rewrite from scratch (like we had to do with
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OK, that seems clear. I'd rather not work with renormalised states, though, and re-express your final equation as:
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I added more text, hope it helps: A bit about quantum superpositions, and a discussion of how you get mixed states.
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Anyway, please provide a citation with whatever it is you are claiming. That will save everybody a lot of time.--
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The topic is "Density Matrix". So the very least this article needs to do is to answer basic questions such as:
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3511:{\displaystyle \langle e_{i}\mid \phi \rangle \langle \phi \mid e_{j}\rangle =\phi _{i}{\overline {\phi _{j}}}}
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Note: I login and sign my edits, because I want to be accountable for my opinions, even when they are wrong.
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This might be true for a very special kind of ensemble, in which the components are linearly independent.--
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Yes, the technical difference is whether or not one has chosen a basis. In Dirac notation an operator e.g.
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Done. If someone feels like rewriting the section to be more explanatory and less jargon-filled, go ahead.
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PS BTW, in the example I suggested, no matter how much appending you do, that trick isn't going to work.--
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Thanks (sorry, couldnt be bothered to rewrite the page during exam period, might try during the summer)
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a unit ket vector. The corresponding density matrix is the convex combination of rank one projections
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the article, the GNS lets you recover the Hilbert space, is this not the state space you start with?
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on Knowledge. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
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philosophy of quantum mechanics.... I'm not confident enough to write anything about that. :-) --
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What does this have to do with non-uniquess of factorizations (except in very special cases?) --
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For explaining 'projection', which is essential to the motivation, this article links only to
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OK, that makes sense. I just made an edit that hopefully corrects and clarifies this issue. --
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yes, agreed. didn't you object to calling those things probability measures. :-)
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An article on a matrix, but there is no matrix to be found!!! Poor again.
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which is fully valid and something we do in quantum optics all the time.
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I added some text to try to explain it more simply, does it help? --
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By definition, a positive rank one operator on H is one of the form
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with another, as its state can not be described by a pure state."
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in the banner shell. Please resolve this conflict if possible.
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1862:Could you provide a citation for this fact?--
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850:Ultraweak continuity takes care of this.--
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6096:{\displaystyle {\vec {v}},{\vec {w}}}
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4458:Yes, that sounds like a good idea :)
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4611:{\displaystyle tr(\rho ^{2})=1/2}
2408:specific, saying how you do this?
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1230:Kindly, address this issue.
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109:and see a list of open tasks.
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5736:{\displaystyle log_{2}(2)=1}
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1316:I still don't believe it. --
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6223:I will add: diagonal matrix
5254:basis gives me the matrix:
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1765:. This can be described as
1291:it's also not claimed that
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6796:(linear algebra). So does
6368:What density? What matrix?
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5022:{\displaystyle |\psi : -->
3864:. I corrected the link. --
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5799:{\displaystyle \rho _{i}}
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1280:I still don't believe it,
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1067:05:05, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
1038:16:54, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
1017:Mixed State to pure state
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4437:{\displaystyle \theta }
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6889:
6888:
6884:
6780:
6779:
6767:
6761:
6760:
6743:(6): 1474–1489.
6731:
6725:
6724:
6718:
6713:
6711:
6703:
6691:
6591:
6561:authors' minds.
6454:article nor the
6199:
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5839:
5805:
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5734:
5717:
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5502:
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5489:
5488:
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5369:
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5323:
5310:
5295:
5282:
5253:
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5241:
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5219:
5203:
5202:<2|)}" /: -->
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4977:
4968:
4887:Accessible intro
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3291:
3290:
3251:Michael C. Price
3202:Michael C. Price
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3003:
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2892:
2870:
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2862:
2857:
2856:
2847:
2845:
2844:
2835:
2823:
2821:
2820:
2815:
2808:
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2782:
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2779:
2774:
2769:
2768:
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2752:
2740:
2739:
2729:
2707:
2705:
2704:
2699:
2692:
2691:
2666:
2664:
2663:
2658:
2650:
2649:
2639:
2619:
2618:
2596:
2594:
2593:
2588:
2583:
2582:
2567:
2566:
2544:Here's an answer
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2254:
2253:
2248:
2246:
2245:
2236:
2235:
2225:
2174:
2172:
2171:
2166:
2164:
2163:
2154:
2153:
2138:
2137:
2115:
2113:
2112:
2107:
2105:
2104:
2095:
2094:
2084:
2059:
2057:
2056:
2051:
2049:
2048:
2029:
2027:
2026:
2021:
2019:
2018:
2009:
2008:
1998:
1757:
1755:
1754:
1749:
1729:
1728:
1620:
1618:
1617:
1612:
1592:
1591:
1472:
1470:
1469:
1464:
1462:
1461:
1439:
1437:
1436:
1431:
1429:
1428:
1419:
1418:
1408:
1271:is nonnegative.
1253:
1231:
1200:
1198:
1197:
1192:
1190:
1185:
1183:
1169:
1155:
1040:
997:
971:Michael C. Price
904:
773:
637:
635:
634:
629:
624:
623:
614:
597:
592:
591:
576:
575:
557:by the elements
556:
554:
553:
548:
540:
539:
530:
515:
513:
512:
507:
505:
488:
480:
479:
471:
420:
418:
417:
412:
410:
409:
401:
391:
389:
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383:
280:Initial comments
231:
230:
229:physics articles
227:
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221:
200:
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184:
177:
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160:
153:
123:
122:
119:
116:
113:
92:
87:
86:
76:
69:
68:
63:
55:
48:
31:
25:
24:
16:
7163:
7162:
7158:
7157:
7156:
7154:
7153:
7152:
7113:
7112:
7092:
7076:
6916:
6890:
6886:
6882:
6880:
6879:
6790:
6785:
6784:
6783:
6769:
6768:
6764:
6737:Physical Review
6733:
6732:
6728:
6714:
6704:
6693:
6692:
6688:
6585:
6418:generalizations
6370:
6327:
6232:diagonal matrix
6225:
6182:
6181:
6140:
6139:
6105:
6104:
6061:
6060:
5927:
5926:
5883:
5882:
5855:
5850:
5849:
5830:
5829:
5826:
5786:
5781:
5780:
5708:
5697:
5696:
5607:
5606:
5562:
5561:
5538:
5528:
5507:
5506:
5480:
5464:
5438:
5412:
5411:
5408:
5384:Stephiefaulkner
5359:142.150.226.247
5352:
5328:
5327:
5314:
5300:
5299:
5286:
5268:
5256:
5255:
5208:
5207:
5039:
5038:
4956:
4955:
4952:
4916:
4893:Manual of Style
4889:
4839:
4825:
4824:
4823:? I calculated
4786:
4772:
4771:
4732:
4711:
4698:
4697:
4675:
4650:
4646:
4629:
4625:
4620:
4619:
4581:
4567:
4566:
4542:
4528:
4527:
4497:
4483:
4482:
4426:
4425:
4372:
4354:
4338:
4325:
4324:
4294:
4293:
4254:
4236:
4220:
4207:
4206:
4163:
4162:
4123:
4105:
4089:
4076:
4075:
4024:Poincare sphere
3915:
3887:
3882:
3839:
3825:
3816:
3801:
3732:
3727:
3726:
3691:
3676:
3650:
3649:
3614:
3599:
3573:
3568:
3567:
3540:
3526:
3525:
3493:
3481:
3465:
3437:
3429:
3428:
3385:
3384:
3375:
3369:Anonymous User
3333:
3332:
3307:
3306:
3282:
3274:
3273:
3175:
3131:
3104:
3091:
3083:
3082:
3020:
2994:
2986:
2985:
2955:
2950:
2949:
2913:
2897:
2879:
2878:
2848:
2836:
2826:
2825:
2799:
2791:
2790:
2760:
2744:
2731:
2716:
2715:
2683:
2675:
2674:
2641:
2610:
2605:
2604:
2574:
2558:
2553:
2552:
2546:
2237:
2227:
2206:
2205:
2189:CSTAR, that is
2155:
2145:
2129:
2124:
2123:
2096:
2086:
2065:
2064:
2040:
2035:
2034:
2010:
2000:
1979:
1978:
1844:
1837:
1806:
1799:
1793:
1786:
1720:
1709:
1708:
1583:
1572:
1571:
1532:
1528:
1521:
1514:
1507:
1480:
1453:
1448:
1447:
1420:
1410:
1389:
1388:
1366:
1360:
1260:
1239:Sharma yamijala
1232:
1143:
1142:
1023:
1019:
987:
967:
925:
910:
894:109.153.172.124
887:
808:
780:201.232.162.150
774:—The preceding
770:
615:
583:
564:
559:
558:
531:
518:
517:
464:
463:
421:”? —Preceding
394:
393:
374:
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370:
327:130.126.230.244
317:130.126.230.244
282:
228:
225:
222:
219:
218:
196:
189:
169:
166:
120:
117:
114:
111:
110:
88:
81:
61:
32:on Knowledge's
29:
12:
11:
5:
7161:
7159:
7151:
7150:
7145:
7140:
7135:
7130:
7125:
7115:
7114:
7111:
7110:
7109:
7108:
7090:
7052:
7051:
7050:
7049:
7012:
7008:
7005:
7002:
6915:
6912:
6878:
6875:
6873:
6871:
6870:
6869:
6868:
6789:
6786:
6782:
6781:
6776:Academic Press
6762:
6726:
6694:McWeeny, Roy.
6685:
6684:
6680:
6679:
6678:
6677:
6676:
6639:Dirac notation
6604:
6603:
6602:
6601:
6597:
6582:
6581:
6580:
6579:
6578:
6577:
6576:
6575:
6574:
6573:
6558:
6481:
6478:
6475:
6472:
6469:
6466:
6463:
6459:
6452:Density matrix
6448:
6442:
6441:
6425:, because the
6369:
6366:
6365:
6364:
6326:
6323:
6308:
6307:
6276:
6275:
6224:
6221:
6220:
6219:
6189:
6147:
6127:
6124:
6121:
6118:
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6112:
6089:
6086:
6080:
6074:
6071:
6045:
6042:
6036:
6030:
6027:
6021:
6015:
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6003:
5997:
5994:
5988:
5982:
5979:
5973:
5967:
5964:
5958:
5955:
5952:
5946:
5943:
5937:
5934:
5911:
5908:
5902:
5896:
5893:
5870:
5867:
5862:
5858:
5837:
5825:
5822:
5821:
5820:
5819:
5818:
5793:
5789:
5732:
5729:
5726:
5723:
5720:
5715:
5711:
5707:
5704:
5683:
5679:
5676:
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5660:
5657:
5652:
5648:
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5635:
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5576:
5572:
5569:
5545:
5541:
5535:
5531:
5525:
5521:
5517:
5514:
5492:
5487:
5483:
5479:
5476:
5471:
5467:
5461:
5457:
5453:
5450:
5445:
5441:
5437:
5434:
5431:
5428:
5425:
5422:
5419:
5407:
5404:
5400:
5399:
5375:
5337:
5332:
5326:
5322:
5318:
5315:
5313:
5309:
5305:
5302:
5301:
5298:
5294:
5290:
5287:
5285:
5281:
5277:
5274:
5273:
5271:
5266:
5263:
5239:
5236:
5232:
5228:
5225:
5222:
5218:
5201:<1|+|2: -->
5200:<2|+|2: -->
5199:<1|+|1: -->
5191:<1|+|2: -->
5190:<2|+|2: -->
5189:<1|+|1: -->
5183:
5179:
5175:
5172:
5168:
5164:
5160:
5156:
5152:
5149:
5145:
5141:
5137:
5133:
5129:
5126:
5122:
5118:
5114:
5110:
5106:
5103:
5099:
5095:
5091:
5088:
5084:
5080:
5077:
5073:
5069:
5066:
5062:
5058:
5054:
5051:
5045:<2|)}": -->
5044:<1|+|2: -->
5043:<2|+|2: -->
5042:<1|+|1: -->
5035:, I can write
5018:
5015:
5012:
5008:
5004:
5001:
4998:
4994:
4990:
4984:
4980:
4975:
4971:
4967:
4951:
4948:
4915:
4912:
4888:
4885:
4883:
4881:
4880:
4857:
4854:
4851:
4846:
4842:
4838:
4835:
4832:
4812:
4808:
4804:
4801:
4798:
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4789:
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4782:
4779:
4757:
4751:
4747:
4744:
4739:
4735:
4730:
4726:
4723:
4718:
4714:
4709:
4705:
4662:
4657:
4653:
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4645:
4641:
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4632:
4628:
4607:
4603:
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4472:
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4470:
4433:
4397:
4391:
4387:
4384:
4379:
4375:
4370:
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4336:
4332:
4317:
4301:
4279:
4273:
4269:
4266:
4261:
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4252:
4246:
4243:
4239:
4235:
4232:
4227:
4223:
4218:
4214:
4203:
4202:
4201:
4200:
4199:
4198:
4197:
4170:
4148:
4142:
4138:
4135:
4130:
4126:
4121:
4115:
4112:
4108:
4104:
4101:
4096:
4092:
4087:
4083:
4045:
4044:
4043:
4042:
4041:
4040:
4039:
4038:
4015:I was reading
4006:
4005:
4004:
4003:
4002:
4001:
4000:
3999:
3980:
3972:
3971:
3970:
3969:
3951:
3950:
3949:
3948:
3914:
3911:
3881:
3878:
3877:
3876:
3838:
3835:
3829:BetacommandBot
3824:
3821:
3815:
3812:
3800:
3797:
3787:
3786:
3773:
3768:
3765:
3761:
3755:
3751:
3747:
3742:
3739:
3735:
3722:Then clearly
3720:
3719:
3706:
3701:
3698:
3694:
3686:
3683:
3679:
3675:
3670:
3665:
3662:
3658:
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3621:
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3609:
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3596:
3592:
3588:
3583:
3580:
3576:
3561:
3560:
3547:
3543:
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3533:
3519:
3518:
3505:
3500:
3496:
3488:
3484:
3480:
3477:
3472:
3468:
3464:
3461:
3458:
3455:
3452:
3449:
3444:
3440:
3436:
3419:
3418:
3407:
3404:
3401:
3398:
3395:
3392:
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3371:
3346:
3343:
3340:
3320:
3317:
3314:
3294:
3289:
3285:
3281:
3270:
3269:
3268:
3267:
3266:
3265:
3246:
3245:
3244:
3228:Dirac notation
3217:
3216:
3215:
3214:
3197:
3196:
3180:
3177:
3172:
3168:
3162:
3158:
3154:
3150:
3146:
3141:
3138:
3134:
3128:
3124:
3120:
3115:
3109:
3103:
3098:
3094:
3090:
3080:
3079:
3078:
3063:
3062:
3051:
3047:
3043:
3039:
3035:
3030:
3027:
3023:
3017:
3013:
3009:
3006:
3001:
2997:
2993:
2979:
2978:
2965:
2962:
2958:
2940:
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2928:
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2920:
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