Quite literally, '''quantum state''' describes the state of a
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It is instructive to consider the most useful quantum states of the
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* The
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* The
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* The
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The first two states are '''pure quantum states''', i.e., they can be described by a Dirac ket vector, while the latter is a '''mixed quantum state''', i.e., a statistical mixture of pure states. A mixed state needs a statistical description in addition to the quantum description, this is provided by the
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events birds quantum statistical mechanics. Below these three quantum states are represented on the vivid ''ladder'' of harmonic oscillator states. Each step of the ladder is a Fock state, that is raised and lowered respectively through the application on the state of the creation operator ''a''† and annihilation operator ''a''. The coherent state is a coherent superposition of Fock states with the distribution sketched on the schema. The thermal state is an incoherent superposition with sketched distribution. Those distributions are the diagonal elements of the density matrix of the states. Coherent superposition means that the off-diagonal elements values depend on those of the diagonal. Incoherent superposition means off-diagonal elements are independent of the diagonal (generally they are even just zero).
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