ON THE PSEUDO-PURE STATES OF TWO QUBITS

Horia Scutaru

Published Jan 1, 2004• 0 citations

Abstract

Pseudo-pure states are defined as the maximally degenerate mixed states. The density matrices of such states have only two distinct degenerate eigenvalues. We shall show that, in the particular case of the two qubits systems, these states are completely determined by the one of the two Bloch vectors of the corresponding qubits.

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