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arXiv:1112.2156 · ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam)

Stabilizer States as a Basis for Density Matrices

Simon J. Gay

Published Dec 9, 2011• 0 citations
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Abstract

We show that the space of density matrices for n-qubit states, considered as a (2^n)^2 dimensional real vector space, has a basis consisting of density matrices of stabilizer states. We describe an application of this result to automated verification of quantum protocols.
DOI
10.48550/arxiv.1112.2156

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