Antipodal eigenprojectors of a qubit density matrix
ID: antipodal-eigenprojectors-of-a-qubit-density-matrix
For a qubit density matrix with nonzero Bloch vector, and the multiplication rule for the Pauli matrices give these orthogonal rank-one spectral projectors, with eigenvalues . Their Bloch vectors are opposite unit vectors . At the state is maximally mixed and the direction is undefined; any orthonormal eigenbasis gives an antipodal pair, but no pair is distinguished by the state.
New to topics? Read the docs here!