Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2010-03-25
Commun. Math. Phys. 303, 785 (2011)
Physics
Quantum Physics
21 pages, 1 figure; v2: typos corrected, Lemmas 18 and 20 improved, added error discussion to algorithm
Scientific paper
10.1007/s00220-011-1205-1
Given some observable H of a finite-dimensional quantum system, we investigate the typical properties of random quantum state vectors that have a fixed expectation value with respect to H. Under some some conditions on the spectrum, we prove that this manifold of quantum states shows a concentration of measure phenomenon: any continuous function on this set is almost everywhere close to its mean. We also give a method to estimate the corresponding expectation values analytically, and we prove a formula for the typical reduced density matrix in the case that H is a sum of local observables. We discuss the implications of our results as new proof tools in quantum information theory and to study phenomena in quantum statistical mechanics. As a by-product, we derive a method to sample the resulting distribution numerically, which generalizes the well-known Gaussian method to draw random states from the sphere.
Eisert Jens
Gross David
Mueller Markus
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