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A limit of the quantum Renyi divergence

Quantum Physics 2014-07-28 v2

Abstract

Recently, an interesting quantity called the quantum Renyi divergence (or "sandwiched" Renyi relative entropy) was defined for pairs of positive semi-definite operators ρ\rho and σ\sigma. It depends on a parameter α\alpha and acts as a parent quantity for other relative entropies which have important operational significances in quantum information theory: the quantum relative entropy and the min- and max-relative entropies. There is, however, another relative entropy, called the 0-relative Renyi entropy, which plays a key role in the analysis of various quantum information-processing tasks in the one-shot setting. We prove that the 0-relative Renyi entropy is obtainable from the quantum Renyi divergence only if ρ\rho and σ\sigma have equal supports. This, along with existing results in the literature, suggests that it suffices to consider two essential parent quantities from which operationally relevant entropic quantities can be derived - the quantum Renyi divergence with parameter α1/2\alpha \ge 1/2, and the α\alpha-relative R\'enyi entropy with α[0,1)\alpha\in [0,1).

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@article{arxiv.1308.5961,
  title  = {A limit of the quantum Renyi divergence},
  author = {Nilanjana Datta and Felix Leditzky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.5961},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

8 pages; v2 slight change in the Abstract and Conclusions