Journal of Mathematical Physics

Intrinsic structure of state space of a quantum system

Zhihao Ma, Sen Zhu

Published Mar 1, 2011• 1 citation

Abstract

Quantum states play a fundamental role in quantum physics; so it is necessary to study intrinsic structure of quantum states. In this paper, we study topological structure and measurable structure of state space of a quantum system, and find that almost all physical important properties on quantum states coincide.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3559133

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