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Figure 2

From: Discrimination of two-qubit unitaries via local operations and classical communication

Figure 2

A convex hull in Eq. (11) of the spectrum of a unitary transformation is shown.

Vertices A, B, C and D correspond to , , and , respectively, since λ4 ≥ λ1 ≥ λ2 ≥ λ3. In (a), the local convex hull is constructed as □PQRS where {P, Q, R, S} are midpoints of {DA, AB, BC, CD} respectively. In (b), it is shown that for any of {P, Q, R, S} if a line orthogonal to {DA, AB, BC, CD} is drawn, it passes through the origin. It means that if , then it also holds true that .

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