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While doing quantum tomography in cirq, I ended up getting a density matrix which is not positive semi-definite. Why is this so? Here's the code I used:

import cirq
from cirq.experiments import state_tomography
q0, q1, q2 = cirq.LineQubit.range(3)
circuit = cirq.Circuit(
    cirq.CNOT(q0,q1),         
    cirq.CNOT(q0, q2)    
)
simulator = cirq.Simulator()

results = state_tomography( sampler=simulator, qubits=[q0, q1], circuit=circuit, repetitions=5000 ) density_matrix = results.data print("Reconstructed Density Matrix:") print(density_matrix) eigenvalues, _ = np.linalg.eigh(density_matrix) print(eigenvalues)

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