Notation

Symbol				Definition
${\mathcal {H}}\,\!$				Hilbert Space
${\mathbb {C} }\,\!$				The set of complex numbers
${\mathbb {R} }\,\!$				The set of real numbers
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$X\,\!$				The Pauli X matrix (see Table 2.1)
$Y\,\!$				The Pauli Y matrix (see Table 2.1)
$Z\,\!$				The Pauli Z matrix (see Table 2.1)
${\mathbb {I} }\,\!$				The
${\delta _{ij}}$				The Kronecker delta (see (C.17))
${\epsilon _{ijk}}$				Epsilon (see (C.8))
$\otimes \,\!$				The Tensor Product (see Appendix C, Section C.7
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