Notation

Symbol				Definition
${\mathcal {H}}\,\!$				Hilbert Space
${\mathbb {C} }\,\!$				The set of complex numbers
${\mathbb {R} }\,\!$				The set of real numbers
		Chapter 2 - Qubits and Collections of Qubits
$H\,\!$				The Hadamard gate (see Section 2.3.1, Section 5.4, Eq. 2.16, and Eq. 5.10)
$X\,\!$				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 Equation C.17)
${\epsilon _{ijk}}\,\!$				Epsilon (see Equation C.8)
$\otimes \,\!$				The Tensor Product (see Section C.7)
		Chapter 3 - Physics of Quantum Information
$H\,\!$				The Hamiltonian
$\hbar \,\!$				H-bar (Planck's constant divided by $2\pi \,\!$)
$U\,\!$				The Unitary Matrix
$\rho \,\!$				The Density Matrix or Density Operator (see Appendix E - Density Operator: Extensions)
${\mbox{Tr}}\,\!$				The trace of a matrix (see Section C.3.5)
$\det(N)\,\!$				The determinant of a matrix (see Section C.3.6)
${\vec {n}}\,\!$				A unit vector (see Section C.5.1)
$\lambda _{\pm }$				Eigenvalues (see Section C.6)
$\langle {\mathcal {O}}\rangle$				The expectation value of an operator (see Section 3.6)
		Chapter 4 - Entanglement
$\lambda \,\!$				A possible hidden variable (see Section 4.3)
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$\left\vert \phi _{+}\right\rangle ,\left\vert \phi _{-}\right\rangle$				Bell States (see Section 4.4.1 and Eq. 4.14)
		Chapter 5 - Quantum Information