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It is a Hermitian positive-semidefinite matrix of trace one that describes the statistical state of a quantum system.

Hermitian matrix is defined as A=A^(dagger). Meaning that NxN matrix A is equal to it's transposed complex conjugate.

Trace is defined as adding all the terms on the diagonal.

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