On the asymmetry of the relative entropy

DOI10.1063/1.4811856zbMATH Open1284.81024arXiv1304.0409OpenAlexW3103664528MaRDI QIDQ5407597FDOQ5407597

Koenraad M. R. Audenaert

Publication date: 7 April 2014

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

Abstract: The quantum relative entropy $S(ho||sigma)$ is a widely used dissimilarity measure between quantum states, but it has the peculiarity of being asymmetric in its arguments. We quantify the amount of asymmetry by providing a sharp upper bound in terms of two parameters: the trace norm distance between the two states, and the smallest of the smallest eigenvalues of both states. The bound is essentially the asymmetry between two binary distributions governed by these two parameters.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.0409

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16)

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• Convex trace functions and the Wigner-Yanase-Dyson conjecture
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• Information Theory, Relative Entropy and Statistics

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• Some inequalities for central moments of matrices
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