Understanding Bloch Sphere: From Density Matrix Perspective

Pure & Mixed States, Density Matrix & Bloch Sphere

Saptashwa Bhattacharyya
A Bit of Qubit
11 min readJan 26, 2023

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State City Plot of Density Matrix Representing a Pure State.

This post will cover the fundamentals of representing a single qubit state using the Bloch sphere from a mathematical perspective of the density matrix. What will be covered in the post?

  1. What is the difference between pure and mixed states?

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