Pretty Good Measures in Quantum Information Theory

DOI10.1109/TIT.2016.2639521zbMATH Open1364.81060DBLPjournals/tit/ItenRS17arXiv1608.08229OpenAlexW2513705652WikidataQ59453530 ScholiaQ59453530MaRDI QIDQ2989657FDOQ2989657

Authors: Raban Iten, J. M. Renes, David Sutter 

Publication date: 8 June 2017

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Quantum generalizations of Renyi's entropies are a useful tool to describe a variety of operational tasks in quantum information processing. Two families of such generalizations turn out to be particularly useful: the Petz quantum Renyi divergence $$ and the minimal quantum Renyi divergence $ilde{D}_{alpha}$. In this paper, we prove a reverse Araki-Lieb-Thirring inequality that implies a new relation between these two families of divergences, namely that $$ for $alphain[0,1]$ and where $ho$ and $sigma$ are density operators. This bound suggests defining a "pretty good fidelity", whose relation to the usual fidelity implies the known relations between the optimal and pretty good measurement as well as the optimal and pretty good singlet fraction. We also find a new necessary and sufficient condition for optimality of the pretty good measurement and singlet fraction.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08229

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45)

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• Amortized channel divergence for asymptotic quantum channel discrimination

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