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Unit 1: States and ensembles TABLE OF CONTENTS Information and entropy Reversible computation Maxwell's demon Axioms Qubits Density operators Schmidt decomposition Ensembles Distances REFERENCES John Preskill's notes, Chapters 1 and 2.

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