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by hackandthink 1020 days ago
"Product states are multipartite quantum states that can be written as a tensor product"

"In the special case of pure states the definition simplifies: a pure state is separable if and only if it is a product state."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separable_state

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Keyword is can. There's a reason why most university level physics curricula defer quantum density matrices (and by extension tensor algebra) to more advanced classes. There's a lot of mathematical legwork required before you can actually make use of that.