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Spectral density of mixtures of random density matrices for qubits

Quantum Physics 2018-04-20 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We derive the spectral density of the equiprobable mixture of two random density matrices of a two-level quantum system. We also work out the spectral density of mixture under the so-called quantum addition rule. We use the spectral densities to calculate the average entropy of mixtures of random density matrices, and show that the average entropy of the arithmetic-mean-state of nn qubit density matrices randomly chosen from the Hilbert-Schmidt ensemble is never decreasing with the number nn. We also get the exact value of the average squared fidelity. Some conjectures and open problems related to von Neumann entropy are also proposed.

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@article{arxiv.1708.02487,
  title  = {Spectral density of mixtures of random density matrices for qubits},
  author = {Lin Zhang and Jiamei Wang and Zhihua Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.02487},
  year   = {2018}
}

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21 pages, LaTex, 6 figures