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 qubit density matrices randomly chosen from the Hilbert-Schmidt ensemble is never decreasing with the number . We also get the exact value of the average squared fidelity. Some conjectures and open problems related to von Neumann entropy are also proposed.
Cite
@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