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R.F. Parker and C.J.L. Doran
Analysis of 1 and 2 Particle Quantum Systems using Geometric
Algebra
C. Doran, L. Dorst and J. Lasenby eds. Applied Geometrical Alegbras
in computer Science and Engineering, AGACSE 2001, p. 213, Birkhauser
(2002)
Abstract: When two or more subsystems of a quantum system
interact with each other they can become entangled. In this case
the individual subsystems can no longer be described as pure quantum
states. For systems with only 2 subsystems this entanglement can
be described using the Schmidt decomposition. This selects a preferred
orthonormal basis for expressing the wavefunction and gives a measure
of the degree of entanglement present in the system. The extension
of this to the more general case of n subsystems is not yet
known. We present a review of this process using the standard representation
and apply this method to the geometric algebra representation. This
latter form has the advantage of suggesting a generalisation to
n subsystems.
Available on: quant-ph/0106055
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