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Journal of Physics Conference Series

Quaternionic versus complex maps

M. Asorey, G. Scolarici, Luigi Solombrino

Published Nov 1, 2007• 0 citations
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Abstract

We discuss the relation between completely positive quaternionic maps and the corresponding complex maps obtained via projection operation. In order to illustrate this formalism, we reobtain the (complex) qubit subdynamics of maximally entangled Bell states, as complex projection of unitary dynamics between quaternionic pure states.
DOI
10.1088/1742-6596/87/1/012005

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