pygsti.tools.optools.tracedist

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pygsti.tools.optools.tracedist#

tracedist(a, b)#

Compute the trace distance between matrices.

This is given by:

D = 0.5 * Tr( sqrt{ (a-b)^dagger * (a-b) } )

Parameters:
  • a (numpy array) – First matrix.

  • b (numpy array) – Second matrix.

Return type:

float