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New entropic inequalities for qubit and unimodal Gaussian states

Quantum Physics 2017-10-10 v1

Abstract

The Tsallis relative entropy Sq(ρ^,σ^)S_q (\hat{\rho},\hat{\sigma}) measures the distance between two arbitrary density matrices ρ^\hat{\rho} and σ^\hat{\sigma}. In this work the approximation to this quantity when q=1+δq=1+\delta (δ1\delta\ll 1) is obtained. It is shown that the resulting series is equal to the von Neumann relative entropy when δ=0\delta=0. Analyzing the von Neumann relative entropy for arbitrary ρ^\hat{\rho} and a thermal equilibrium state σ^=eβH^/Tr(eβH^)\hat{\sigma}=e^{- \beta \hat{H}}/{\rm Tr}(e^{- \beta \hat{H}}) is possible to define a new inequality relating the energy, the entropy, and the partition function of the system. From this inequality, a parameter that measures the distance between the two states is defined. This distance is calculated for a general qubit system and for an arbitrary unimodal Gaussian state. In the qubit case, the dependence on the purity of the system is studied for T0T \geq 0 and also for T<0T<0. In the Gaussian case, the general partition function given a unimodal quadratic Hamiltonian is calculated and the comparison of the thermal light state as a thermal equilibrium state of the parametric amplifier is presented.

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@article{arxiv.1709.07256,
  title  = {New entropic inequalities for qubit and unimodal Gaussian states},
  author = {J. A. López-Saldívar and O. Castaños and M. A. Man'ko and V. I. Man'ko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.07256},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Work accepted in Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, In press