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Entropy-energy inequalities for qudit states

Quantum Physics 2015-06-22 v3

Abstract

We establish a procedure to find the extremal density matrices for any finite Hamiltonian of a qudit system. These extremal density matrices provide an approximate description of the energy spectra of the Hamiltonian. In the case of restricting the extremal density matrices by pure states, we show that the energy spectra of the Hamiltonian is recovered for d=2d=2 and 33. We conjecture that by means of this approach the energy spectra can be recovered for the Hamiltonian of an arbitrary finite qudit system. For a given qudit system Hamiltonian, we find new inequalities connecting the mean value of the Hamiltonian and the entropy of an arbitrary state. We demonstrate that these inequalities take place for both the considered extremal density matrices and generic ones.

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@article{arxiv.1408.7099,
  title  = {Entropy-energy inequalities for qudit states},
  author = {Armando Figueroa and Julio López and Octavio Castaños and Ramón López-Peña and Margarita A. Man'ko and Vladimir I. Man'ko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.7099},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

12 pages, 4 figures Accepted for publication in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical