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Quantum marginal inequalities and the conjectured entropic inequalities

Quantum Physics 2015-03-31 v3

Abstract

A conjecture -- \emph{the modified super-additivity inequality} of relative entropy -- was proposed in \cite{Zhang2012}: There exist three unitary operators UA\unitary\cHA,UB\unitary\cHBU_A\in \unitary{\cH_A},U_B\in \unitary{\cH_B}, and UAB\unitary\cHA\ot\cHBU_{AB}\in \unitary{\cH_A\ot \cH_B} such that \rS(UABρABUABσAB)\rS(UAρAUAσA)+\rS(UBρBUBσB), \rS(U_{AB}\rho_{AB}U^\dagger_{AB}||\sigma_{AB}) \geqslant \rS(U_A\rho_AU^\dagger_A||\sigma_A) + \rS(U_B\rho_BU^\dagger_B||\sigma_B), where the reference state σ\sigma is required to be full-ranked. A numerical study on the conjectured inequality is conducted in this note. The results obtained indicate that the modified super-additivity inequality of relative entropy seems to hold for all qubit pairs.

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@article{arxiv.1305.2023,
  title  = {Quantum marginal inequalities and the conjectured entropic inequalities},
  author = {Lin Zhang and Hongjin He and Yuan-hong Tao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.2023},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Published version, 10 pages, 8 fig. The title is changed