imaginary part

The horizontal axis represents the real part of the complex number, while the vertical axis represents the imaginary part.

“Not Forgotten” kicks off imaginary part two, which sees the band setting their phasers to nostalgia and performing as if back in 1990 again, sharing a Madchester stage with The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays.

Thus, by averaging over many trials and performing a tomographic reconstruction, one can in many cases extract the real and imaginary parts of the full density matrix.

These are convoluted mathematical objects that can be analysed using complex numbers - i.e. numbers with real and imaginary parts.

Yet let’s remember that z can be any complex number, formed from a real part and an imaginary part: x+iy.