Complex projections of completely positive quaternionic maps (Q926744)

The authors summarize the density matrix formalism in quaternionic quantum mechanics (QQM) and introduce the von Neumann entropy for quaternionic states. They discuss completely positive quaternionic maps and their complex projections. They consider in particular unitary quaternionic maps, which form a subset of the completely positive quaternionic maps, and summarize some results concerning their complex projections. They apply their results to a two level (time independent) quaternionic quantum system.