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View SchemaHilbert--Schmidt volume of the set of mixed quantum states
| Authors | Karol Zyczkowski, Hans-Juergen Sommers |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0302197 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0302197 |
| DOI | 10.1088/0305-4470/36/39/310 |
| Journal | J. Phys. A 36, 10115-10130 (2003) |
Abstract
We compute the volume of the convex N^2-1 dimensional set M_N of density matrices of size N with respect to the Hilbert-Schmidt measure. The hyper--area of the boundary of this set is also found and its ratio to the volume provides an information about the complex structure of M_N. Similar investigations are also performed for the smaller set of all real density matrices. As an intermediate step we analyze volumes of the unitary and orthogonal groups and of the flag manifolds.
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