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On a quantum version of Shannon's conditional entropy

Quantum Physics 2015-06-26 v1

Abstract

In this article we propose a quantum version of Shannon's conditional entropy. Given two density matrices ρ\rho and σ\sigma on a finite dimensional Hilbert space and with S(ρ)=\trρlnρS(\rho)=-\tr\rho\ln\rho being the usual von Neumann entropy, this quantity S(ρσ)S(\rho|\sigma) is concave in ρ\rho and satisfies 0S(ρσ)S(ρ)0\le S(\rho|\sigma)\le S(\rho), a quantum analogue of Shannon's famous inequality. Thus we view S(ρσ)S(\rho|\sigma) as the entropy of ρ\rho conditioned by σ\sigma.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0003048,
  title  = {On a quantum version of Shannon's conditional entropy},
  author = {Robert Schrader},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0003048},
  year   = {2015}
}

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