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alpha-z-relative Renyi entropies

Quantum Physics 2016-02-23 v3

Abstract

We consider a two-parameter family of R\'enyi relative entropies Dα,z(ρσ)D_{\alpha,z}(\rho||\sigma) that are quantum generalisations of the classical R\'enyi divergence Dα(pq)D_{\alpha}(p||q). This family includes many known relative entropies (or divergences) such as the quantum relative entropy, the recently defined quantum R\'enyi divergences, as well as the quantum R\'enyi relative entropies. All its members satisfy the quantum generalizations of R\'enyi's axioms for a divergence. We consider the range of the parameters α,z\alpha,z for which the data processing inequality holds. We also investigate a variety of limiting cases for the two parameters, obtaining explicit formulas for each one of them.

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@article{arxiv.1310.7178,
  title  = {alpha-z-relative Renyi entropies},
  author = {Koenraad M. R. Audenaert and Nilanjana Datta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.7178},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

30 pages, 2 figures; Proof of the data-processing inequality simplified (see Section 6). An abridged version of this paper (without Section 6) has been published in the Journal of Mathematical Physics

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