Information content for quantum states

DOI10.1063/1.533260MaRDI QIDQ2737953zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dorje C. Brody, Lane P. Hughston

Publication date 30 August 2001

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9906085

zbMATH Keywords

concavitydensity functionmaximum entropy argumentShannon entropytwo-state system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum computation (81P68) Foundations, quantum information and its processing, quantum axioms, and philosophy (81P99) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

Abstract: A method of representing probabilistic aspects of quantum systems is introduced by means of a density function on the space of pure quantum states. In particular, a maximum entropy argument allows us to obtain a natural density function that only reflects the information provided by the density matrix. This result is applied to derive the Shannon entropy of a quantum state. The information theoretic quantum entropy thereby obtained is shown to have the desired concavity property, and to differ from the the conventional von Neumann entropy. This is illustrated explicitly for a two-state system.

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