@@ -548,6 +548,11 @@ computational basis states, that is the states $\vert 00\rangle =\vert 0\rangle
548548\times \vert 0\rangle$, $\vert 01 \rangle$, $\vert 10\rangle$ and
549549$\vert 11\rangle$.
550550
551+ This process is referred to in the language of Pauli measurements as
552+ _measuring Pauli-Z_" and is entirely equivalent to performing a
553+ computational basis measurement.
554+
555+
551556!split
552557===== The specific eigenvalues =====
553558
573578 \end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix} 0\\ 0 \\ 1 \\ 0\end{bmatrix}=-1\begin{bmatrix} 0\\ 0 \\ 1 \\ 0\end{bmatrix}.
574579\]
575580!et
576- We don't get the correct eigenvalues if we perform the measurement on the second qubits !
581+ We don't get the correct eigenvalues if we perform the measurement on the second qubit !
577582
578583!split
579584===== The $\bm{I}\otimes \bm{Z}$ term =====
@@ -609,6 +614,13 @@ correct eigenvalues when measured on the first qubit. Try this as an exercise.
609614!split
610615===== The $\bm{Z}\otimes \bm{Z}$ term =====
611616
617+ Thus the tensor products of two Pauli-$\bm{Z}$ operators forms a matrix
618+ composed of two spaces consisting of $+1$ and $-1$ as eigenvalues.
619+ As with the single-qubit case, both constitute a half-space, meaning that half of
620+ the accessible vector space belongs to the eigenspace with eigenvalue $+1$ and the
621+ remaining half to the eigenspace with eigenvalue $-1$.
622+
623+
612624This term gives the correct eigenvalue when operating on the first
613625qubit. In principle thus we don't need to rewrite string of operators.
614626However, let us rewrite it via a unitary transformation in
@@ -655,6 +667,18 @@ To see this, act with $\bm{P}$ on the states $\vert 00\rangle =\vert
6556670\rangle \times \vert 0\rangle$, $\vert 01 \rangle$, $\vert 10\rangle$
656668and $\vert 11\rangle$.
657669
670+ !split
671+ ===== Transformations =====
672+
673+ Any unitary transformation of such matrices also describes two
674+ half-spaces labeled with eigenvalues. For example, from the identity
675+ that . Similar to the one-qubit case, all two-qubit Pauli-measurements
676+ can be written as for unitary matrices . The transformations are
677+ enumerated in the following table.
678+
679+
680+
681+
658682!split
659683===== More terms =====
660684
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