GATE PH 2019 PH Q24: Quantum Mechanics

Let

represent two possible states of a two-level quantum system. The state obtained by the incoherent superposition of

and

is given by a density matrix that is defined as

. If

and

, the matrix element

(rounded off to one decimal place) is

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