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Phys. Rev. A 65, 032315 (2002) [4 pages]

How much state assignments can differ

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Todd A. Brun
Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Drive, Princeton, New Jersey 08540

J. Finkelstein
Department of Physics, San José State University, San José, California 95192

N. David Mermin
Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-2501

Received 11 September 2001; published 22 February 2002

We derive necessary and sufficient conditions for a group of density matrices to characterize what different people may know about one and the same physical system.

© 2002 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.65.032315
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.65.032315
PACS:
03.65.Ta, 03.65.Ca, 03.67.Hk