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  2. Pauli matrices - Wikipedia

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    The fact that the Pauli matrices, along with the identity matrix I, form an orthogonal basis for the Hilbert space of all 2 × 2 complex matrices , over , means that we can express any 2 × 2 complex matrix M as = + where c is a complex number, and a is a 3-component, complex vector.

  3. List of named matrices - Wikipedia

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    Pauli matrices: A set of three 2 × 2 complex Hermitian and unitary matrices. When combined with the I 2 identity matrix, they form an orthogonal basis for the 2 × 2 complex Hermitian matrices. Redheffer matrix: Encodes a Dirichlet convolution. Matrix entries are given by the divisor function; entires of the inverse are given by the Möbius ...

  4. Pauli group - Wikipedia

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    The Pauli group is generated by the Pauli matrices, and like them it is named after Wolfgang Pauli. The Pauli group on n {\displaystyle n} qubits, G n {\displaystyle G_{n}} , is the group generated by the operators described above applied to each of n {\displaystyle n} qubits in the tensor product Hilbert space ( C 2 ) ⊗ n {\displaystyle ...

  5. Spin (physics) - Wikipedia

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    In 1927, Pauli formalized the theory of spin using the theory of quantum mechanics invented by Erwin Schrödinger and Werner Heisenberg. He pioneered the use of Pauli matrices as a representation of the spin operators and introduced a two-component spinor wave-function. Pauli's theory of spin was non-relativistic.

  6. Generalizations of Pauli matrices - Wikipedia

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    This method of generalizing the Pauli matrices refers to a generalization from a single 2-level system to multiple such systems.In particular, the generalized Pauli matrices for a group of qubits is just the set of matrices generated by all possible products of Pauli matrices on any of the qubits.

  7. Wolfgang Pauli - Wikipedia

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    Pauli introduced the 2×2 Pauli matrices as a basis of spin operators, thus solving the nonrelativistic theory of spin. This work, including the Pauli equation , is sometimes said to have influenced Paul Dirac in his creation of the Dirac equation for the relativistic electron, though Dirac said that he invented these same matrices himself ...

  8. Spinors in three dimensions - Wikipedia

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    Given a unit vector in 3 dimensions, for example (a, b, c), one takes a dot product with the Pauli spin matrices to obtain a spin matrix for spin in the direction of the unit vector. The eigenvectors of that spin matrix are the spinors for spin-1/2 oriented in the direction given by the vector. Example: u = (0.8, -0.6, 0) is a unit vector ...

  9. Pauli exclusion principle - Wikipedia

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    However, stability of large systems with many electrons and many nucleons is a different question, and requires the Pauli exclusion principle. [15] It has been shown that the Pauli exclusion principle is responsible for the fact that ordinary bulk matter is stable and occupies volume.