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Online text: cs.uwaterloo.ca/~watrous/TQI/TQI.1.pdf

Chapter 1 of the authored book published by Cambridge University Press in April 2018. The online chapter does not establish a manuscript revision date.

Cited passages: Watrous, The Theory of Quantum Information, §1.1.2, printed pp. 17–18, equations (1.94)–(1.97), Hermitian, positive semidefinite and density operators; finite-dimensional setting.

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