Orbits of quantum states and geometry of Bloch vectors forN-level systems

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/37/4/022MaRDI QIDQ4460975zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. G. Schirmer, Tan Zhang, John Leahy

Publication date 29 March 2004

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0308004

zbMATH Keywords

structure of the set of quantum states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum optics (81V80)

Abstract: Physical constraints such as positivity endow the set of quantum states with a rich geometry if the system dimension is greater than two. To shed some light on the complicated structure of the set of quantum states, we consider a stratification with strata given by unitary orbit manifolds, which can be identified with flag manifolds. The results are applied to study the geometry of the coherence vector for n-level quantum systems. It is shown that the unitary orbits can be naturally identified with spheres in R^{n^2-1} only for n=2. In higher dimensions the coherence vector only defines a non-surjective embedding into a closed ball. A detailed analysis of the three-level case is presented. Finally, a refined stratification in terms of symplectic orbits is considered.

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