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Pure and mixed states
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Example applications
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Definition and motivation
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Measurement
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Overview
- Quantum mechanics
- Matrix Matrix (mathematics)
- Probabilities
- Measurements Measurement in quantum mechanics
- Physical systems Physical system
- Wavefunctions Wavefunction
- Pure states Pure state
- Entangled Quantum entanglement
- Decoherence Quantum decoherence
- Superposed states Quantum superposition
- Quantum statistical mechanics
- Open quantum systems Open quantum system
- Quantum information
Definition and motivation
- Linear operator
- Orthonormal
- Basis Basis (linear algebra)
- Hilbert space
- Real numbers Real number
- Complex conjugates Complex conjugate
- Positive semi-definite operator Positive semi-definite matrix
- Positive semi-definite Positive-definite matrix
- Self-adjoint operator
- Trace Trace class operator
- Projectors Projection operator
- Spectral theorem
- Schrödinger–HJW theorem
- Partial trace
- Reduced density matrix
Pure and mixed states
- Convex combination
- Outer product
- Projection Projection (linear algebra)
- Rank Rank (linear algebra)
- Idempotent
- Purity Purity (quantum mechanics)
- Probability amplitudes Probability amplitude
- Quantum interference
- Convex set
- Extremal points Extremal point
- Qubit
- Linear combination
- Pauli matrices
- Self-adjoint matrices Hermitian matrix
- Unit ball Unit sphere
- Bloch sphere
- Light polarization Photon polarization
- Photon
- Circular Circular polarization
- Linear Linear polarization
- Elliptical polarization
- Circular polarizer
- Linear polarizer
- Unpolarized light
- Incandescent light bulb
- Wave plate
- Birefringent crystal
Equivalent ensembles and purifications
- Partial isometry
- Purifications Purification of quantum state
Measurement
- Observable
- Expectation value Expectation value (quantum mechanics)
- Trace Trace (linear algebra)
- Eigenspace
- Gleason's theorem
- Non-contextuality Quantum contextuality
- POVMs POVM
Entropy
- Von Neumann entropy
- Logarithm Matrix logarithm
- Shannon entropy
Von Neumann equation for time evolution
Wigner functions and classical analogies
- Phase space
- Wigner function Wigner quasi-probability distribution
- Moyal equation Phase space formulation
- Moyal bracket
- Liouville equation Liouville's theorem (Hamiltonian)
- Classical physics
Example applications
- Statistical mechanics
- Canonical ensemble
- Partition function Partition function (statistical mechanics)
- Grand canonical ensemble
- Fock space
- Classical limit
- Quantum computation
- Quantum information theory
- Depolarizing channel Quantum depolarizing channel
- Amplitude damping channel
- Quantum tomography
- Atom
- Molecule
- Uncorrelated Electronic correlation
- Slater determinant
- Hartree–Fock
C*-algebraic formulation of states
- C*-algebra
- States State (functional analysis)
- Linear functionals Linear functional
- GNS construction
- Irreducible representations Irreducible representation
- Compact operators Compact operator
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Nodes117
Edges116
Triples47
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.017094
Components1
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Density matrix
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has application · 16
Density matrix → Constructing, Decoherence, Density, Fock, Hamiltonian, Hartree, If, Noise, Quantum, Similarly, Slater, Some, Statistical, The, This, When
related to history · 11
Density matrix → Dirac, Eugene Wigner, Felix Bloch, John, Lev Landau, Neumann, Neumann's, Nowadays, The, This, Von Neumann
related to Entropy · 6
Density matrix → If, Neumann, Since, The, Then, This
related to Wigner functions and classical analogies · 6
Density matrix → Moyal, Neumann, The, Under, Wigner, Wigner-transform
related to Definition and motivation · 4
Density matrix → Hilbert, In, Pick, The
related to Equivalent ensembles and purifications · 3
Density matrix → The, Then, Those
is a · 1
Density matrix → representation of a linear operator called the density operator
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Important terminology
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Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Density matrix | is a | representation of a linear operator called the density operator | 0.90 | text |
| Density matrix | has application | Density | 0.60 | section |
| Density matrix | has application | Some | 0.60 | section |
| Density matrix | has application | Statistical | 0.60 | section |
| Density matrix | has application | Constructing | 0.60 | section |
| Density matrix | has application | Hamiltonian | 0.60 | section |
| Density matrix | has application | The | 0.60 | section |
| Density matrix | has application | If | 0.60 | section |
| Density matrix | has application | Fock | 0.60 | section |
| Density matrix | has application | Quantum | 0.60 | section |
| Density matrix | has application | This | 0.60 | section |
| Density matrix | has application | Decoherence | 0.60 | section |
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