Stabilizer States as a Basis for Density Matrices

Abstract

We show that the space of density matrices for n-qubit states, considered as a (2n)2 dimensional real vector space, has a basis consisting of density matrices of stabilizer states. We describe an application of this result to automated verification of quantum protocols.

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