Numerical shadow and geometry of quantum states

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/44/33/335301MaRDI QIDQ3091857zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Charles F. Dunkl, Piotr Gawron, Jarosław Adam Miszczak, Zbigniew Puchała, Karol Życzkowski, John Holbrook

Publication date 14 September 2011

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2760

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16)

Abstract: The totality of normalised density matrices of order N forms a convex set Q_N in R^(N^2-1). Working with the flat geometry induced by the Hilbert-Schmidt distance we consider images of orthogonal projections of Q_N onto a two-plane and show that they are similar to the numerical ranges of matrices of order N. For a matrix A of a order N one defines its numerical shadow as a probability distribution supported on its numerical range W(A), induced by the unitarily invariant Fubini-Study measure on the complex projective manifold CP^(N-1). We define generalized, mixed-states shadows of A and demonstrate their usefulness to analyse the structure of the set of quantum states and unitary dynamics therein.

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