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9.14 Correction

Open kunliu7 opened this issue 3 years ago • 0 comments

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This is wrong. A positive operator makes sure that it has non-negative eigenvalues.

When performing $\sqrt A$, you need to sqrt the eigenvalues under the expression of spectral decomposition:

$$ \sqrt A = \sum_i \sqrt \lambda_i | i \rangle \langle i | $$

kunliu7 avatar Mar 10 '21 08:03 kunliu7