Quantum Tensor Product Structures are Observable Induced

Paolo Zanardi, Daniel A. Lidar, and Seth Lloyd
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 060402 – Published 10 February 2004

Abstract

It is argued that the partition of a quantum system into subsystems is dictated by the set of operationally accessible interactions and measurements. The emergence of a multipartite tensor product structure of the state space and the associated notion of quantum entanglement are then relative and observable induced. We develop a general algebraic framework aimed to formalize this concept.

  • Received 7 August 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.060402

©2004 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Paolo Zanardi1,2, Daniel A. Lidar3, and Seth Lloyd1

  • 1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
  • 2Institute for Scientific Interchange (ISI) Foundation, Viale Settimio Severo 65, I-10133 Torino, Italy
  • 3Chemical Physics Theory Group, Chemistry Department, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3H6

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Vol. 92, Iss. 6 — 13 February 2004

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