rrtucci/qc-paulinesia

introductory book about quantum circuits and quantum computing

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Pauli matrices - formula 3.3 - change in formula

Thanks for the awesome QC-Paulinesia-book! That's far from my expertise, but I'm enjoying it very much.

Just a minor thing: I'm currently reading through chapter 3 and found the following part in formula 3.3 (file 'chapters/pauli-mats.tex', line 45ff.) which I didn't understand:

[...]
Distinct Pauli matrices anticommute. For example,

\beq
\sigx\sigx = -\sigy\sigx
\;.
\label{eq-sig-anticom}
\eeq
[...]

Are you sure that is correct? I would have guessed that you might wanted to write (showing only line 48):

[...]
\sigx\sigy = -sigy\sigx
[...]

Best wishes, Alex
(life science PhD-student from Vienna, Austria)