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Journal of Mathematical Physics

Some Properties of the Reduced Density Matrix

Chongming Yang

Published Mar 1, 1963• 10 citations
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Abstract

Two conjectures made in a previous paper are proved. A further remark is made concerning the largest eigenvalue of the reduced density matrices.
DOI
10.1063/1.1703969

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