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Relative entropy of entanglement of Haar random states

Quantum Physics 2026-08-05 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We determine the relative entropy of entanglement of a bipartite mixed state ρAB\rho_{AB} obtained by tracing out one subsystem of a tripartite Haar-random pure state ψABC|\psi\rangle_{ABC}, finding ER(ρAB)=logdAdBmax(dA,dB,dC)+O(1)E_R(\rho_{AB})=\log\frac{d_Ad_B}{\max(d_A,d_B,d_C)}+O(1). Equivalently, the relative entropy of entanglement nearly saturates the smaller of the entanglement of formation EF(ρAB)E_F(\rho_{AB}) and the mutual information I(A:B)I(A:B). The upper bound is achieved by an explicit separable state obtained through one-sided Schmidt dephasing, which is therefore approximately closest.

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@article{arxiv.2608.05274,
  title  = {Relative entropy of entanglement of Haar random states},
  author = {Takato Mori and Beni Yoshida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.05274},
  year   = {2026}
}

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