A Proof of Vivo-Pato-Oshanin's Conjecture on the Fluctuation of von Neumann Entropy

Authors: Lu Wei

Abstract: It was recently conjectured by Vivo, Pato, and Oshanin [Phys. Rev. E 93, 052106 (2016)] that for a quantum system of Hilbert dimension

m n

in a pure state, the variance of the von Neumann entropy of a subsystem of dimension

m l e q n

is given by �egin{equation*} -psi_{1}left(mn+1 ight)+frac{m+n}{mn+1}psi_{1}left(n ight)-frac{(m+1)(m+2n+1)}{4n^{2}(mn+1)}, end{equation*} where

p s i_{1} (c d o t)

is the trigamma function. We give a proof of this formula.

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