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PerilousGourd
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I'm having trouble with the mathematics of tensor products as applied to Bell states.
Say I have the state
[tex]
\begin{align*}
\left|\psi\right> &= \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} \left(\left|0\right>_A \otimes \left|0\right>_B + \left|1\right>_A \otimes \left|1\right>_B\right)
\end{align*}
[/tex]
How would the tensor products be expanded here? Are the states [itex]\left|0\right>_A[/itex] etc one dimensional?
I'd usually expand tensor products like
[tex]
\left|\psi\right> \otimes\left|\phi\right> = \left(\matrix{\psi_1\\\psi_2}\right) \otimes \left(\matrix{\phi_1\\\phi_2}\right) = \left(\matrix{\psi_1\phi_1\\\psi_1\phi_2\\\psi_2\phi_1\\\psi_2\phi_2}\right)
[/tex]
In this case, is it just
[tex]\left|0\right>_A \otimes\left|0\right>_B = \left(\matrix{0_A0_B}\right)[/tex] ?
And [itex]\left(0_A0_B\right)[/itex] is equivalent to [itex]\left|00\right>[/itex] and so on by convention of notation (this makes me slightly uncomfortable; can any scalar be denoted a ket?), so that the original state can be written
[tex]
\begin{align*}
\left|\psi\right> &= \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} \left(\left|00\right> + \left|11\right>\right)
\end{align*}
[/tex]
Was my working here correct? Or is there some funky [itex]\left|0\right> = \left(\matrix{1\\0}\right)[/itex] business going on, like I've seen in places?
Say I have the state
[tex]
\begin{align*}
\left|\psi\right> &= \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} \left(\left|0\right>_A \otimes \left|0\right>_B + \left|1\right>_A \otimes \left|1\right>_B\right)
\end{align*}
[/tex]
How would the tensor products be expanded here? Are the states [itex]\left|0\right>_A[/itex] etc one dimensional?
I'd usually expand tensor products like
[tex]
\left|\psi\right> \otimes\left|\phi\right> = \left(\matrix{\psi_1\\\psi_2}\right) \otimes \left(\matrix{\phi_1\\\phi_2}\right) = \left(\matrix{\psi_1\phi_1\\\psi_1\phi_2\\\psi_2\phi_1\\\psi_2\phi_2}\right)
[/tex]
In this case, is it just
[tex]\left|0\right>_A \otimes\left|0\right>_B = \left(\matrix{0_A0_B}\right)[/tex] ?
And [itex]\left(0_A0_B\right)[/itex] is equivalent to [itex]\left|00\right>[/itex] and so on by convention of notation (this makes me slightly uncomfortable; can any scalar be denoted a ket?), so that the original state can be written
[tex]
\begin{align*}
\left|\psi\right> &= \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} \left(\left|00\right> + \left|11\right>\right)
\end{align*}
[/tex]
Was my working here correct? Or is there some funky [itex]\left|0\right> = \left(\matrix{1\\0}\right)[/itex] business going on, like I've seen in places?