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Subnormalized states and trace-non-increasing maps

Cappellini, V, H.-J. Sommers, Zyczkowski, K

Published Jan 19, 2007• 5 citations
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Abstract

We investigate the set of completely positive, trace-non-increasing linear maps acting on the set M_N of mixed quantum states of size N. Extremal point of this set of maps are characterized and its volume with respect to the Hilbert-Schmidt (Euclidean) measure is computed explicitly for an arbitrary N. The spectra of partially reduced rescaled dynamical matrices associated with trace-non-increasing completely positive maps belong to the N-cube inscribed in the set of subnormalized states of size N. As a byproduct we derive the measure in M_N induced by partial trace of mixed quantum states distributed uniformly with respect to HS-measure in $M_{N^2}$.

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