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Open Systems & Information Dynamics

A Note on Positive Maps and Classification of States

Gen Kimura, Andrzej Kossakowski

Published Mar 1, 2005• 9 citations
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Abstract

The relation between positive maps on Mn and subsets of self-adjoint elements from Mn ⊗ Mn is investigated. It has been shown that there exists the isomorphism between the set of all positive normalized maps on Mn and the subset of separable states on Mn ⊗ Mn.
DOI
10.1007/s11080-005-0482-6

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