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In quantum mechanics, the Bloch sphere is a geometrical representation of the pure state space of a two-level quantum mechanical system (qubit), named after the physicist Felix Bloch. Quantum mechanics is mathematically formulated in Hilbert space or projective Hilbert space. The space of pure states of a quantum system is given by the one-dimensional subspaces of the corresponding Hilbert space (or the "points" of the projective Hilbert space). For a two-dimensional Hilbert space, this is simply the complex projective line ℂℙ1. This is the Bloch sphere. The Bloch sphere is a unit 2-sphere, with each pair of antipodal points corresponding to mutually orthogonal state vectors. The north and south poles of the Bloch sphere are typically chosen to correspond to the standard basis vectors and , respectively, which in turn might correspond e.g. to the spin-up and spin-down states of an electron. This choice is arbitrary, however. The points on the surface of the sphere correspond to the pure states of the system, whereas the interior points correspond to the mixed states.〔 〕〔http://www.quantiki.org/wiki/Bloch_sphere〕 The Bloch sphere may be generalized to an ''n''-level quantum system but then the visualization is less useful. In optics, the Bloch sphere is also known as the Poincaré sphere and specifically represents different types of polarizations. 6 common polarization types exist and are called Jones Vectors. The natural metric on the Bloch sphere is the Fubini–Study metric. The mapping from the unit 3-sphere in the two-dimensional state space ℂ2 to the Bloch sphere is the Hopf fibration. == Definition == Given an orthonormal basis, any pure state of a two-level quantum system can be written as a superposition of the basis vectors and , where the coefficient or amount of each basis vector is a complex number. Since only the relative phase between the coefficients of the two basis vectors has any physical meaning, we can take the coefficient of to be real and non-negative. We also know from quantum mechanics that the total probability of the system has to be one: , or equivalently . Given this constraint, we can write using the following representation: :, where and . Except in the case where is one of the ket vectors or , the representation is unique. The parameters and , re-interpreted as spherical coordinates, specify a point : on the unit sphere in . For mixed states, one needs to consider the density operator. Any two-dimensional density operator can be expanded using the identity and the Hermitian, traceless Pauli matrices : :, where is called the Bloch vector of the system. It is this vector that indicates the point within the sphere that corresponds to a given mixed state. The eigenvalues of are given by . As density operators must be positive-semidefinite, we have . For pure states we must have : in accordance with the previous result. Hence the surface of the Bloch sphere represents all the pure states of a two-dimensional quantum system, whereas the interior corresponds to all the mixed states. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bloch sphere」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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