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Operator monotones, the reduction criterion and the relative entropy

Quantum Physics 2009-11-06 v2

Abstract

We introduce the theory of operator monotone functions and employ it to derive a new inequality relating the quantum relative entropy and the quantum conditional entropy. We present applications of this new inequality and in particular we prove a new lower bound on the relative entropy of entanglement and other properties of entanglement measures.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0002075,
  title  = {Operator monotones, the reduction criterion and the relative entropy},
  author = {M. B. Plenio and S. Virmani and P. Papadopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0002075},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Final version accepted for publication, added references in reference [1] and [13]

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