Bures Geometry of the Three-Level Quantum Systems. I
Abstract
We compute, using a formula of Dittmann, the Bures metric tensor (g) for the eight-dimensional convex set of three-level quantum systems, employing a newly-developed Euler angle-based parameterization of the 3 x 3 density matrices. Most of the individual metric elements (gij) are found to be expressible in relatively compact form, many of them in fact being exactly zero.
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