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Monotonic multi-state quantum $f$-divergences

Quantum Physics 2023-04-17 v5 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We use the Tomita-Takesaki modular theory and the Kubo-Ando operator mean to write down a large class of multi-state quantum ff-divergences and prove that they satisfy the data processing inequality. For two states, this class includes the (α,z)(\alpha,z)-R\'enyi divergences, the ff-divergences of Petz, and the measures in \cite{matsumoto2015new} as special cases. The method used is the interpolation theory of non-commutative LωpL^p_\omega spaces and the result applies to general von Neumann algebras including the local algebra of quantum field theory. We conjecture that these multi-state R\'enyi divergences have operational interpretations in terms of the optimal error probabilities in asymmetric multi-state quantum state discrimination.

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@article{arxiv.2103.09893,
  title  = {Monotonic multi-state quantum $f$-divergences},
  author = {Keiichiro Furuya and Nima Lashkari and Shoy Ouseph},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.09893},
  year   = {2023}
}

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37 pages

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