Daily Run: Quantum Entanglement
Subtopic change: Keeping focus on mixed-state entropy, teleportation fidelity, and concurrence sampling.
Day 1
Subtopics: Mixed-state entropy, noisy teleportation fidelity, concurrence of random states.
Mixed-state entropy
- Constructed a $2\times2$ density matrix $\rho=\begin{pmatrix}0.6 & 0.2\\0.2 & 0.4\end{pmatrix}$.
- Diagonalised $\rho$ to obtain eigenvalues $\lambda_{1,2}$.
- Stored eigenvalues and entropy in
mixed-state.csv
.
- Computed $S(\rho)=-\operatorname{Tr}\rho\log_2\rho\approx0.721$ bits.
- Confirmed $S$ vanishes only for pure states.
Noisy teleportation fidelity
- Modelled depolarising noise with probability $p=0.1$ during teleportation.
- Simulated 100 random qubits, averaging the channel fidelity.
- Saved the mean value in
teleport-fidelity.txt
.
- Found $\bar F\approx0.93$ exceeding the classical $2/3$ limit.
- Noted linear degradation with larger $p$.
Concurrence sampling
- Generated five random pure two-qubit states.
- Computed concurrence $C=2|ad-bc|$ for each.
- Recorded results in
concurrence.csv
.
- Mean concurrence was roughly $0.5$.
- Observed wide variance across samples.
Subtopic assessment: Teleportation simulations were most enlightening, while entropy and concurrence calculations served as useful cross-checks.