The Wehrl entropy has Gaussian optimizers

DOI10.1007/S11005-017-0994-3zbMATH Open1382.81047arXiv1703.02552OpenAlexW3104929638MaRDI QIDQ683349FDOQ683349

Authors: Giacomo De Palma 

Publication date: 6 February 2018

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

Abstract: We determine the minimum Wehrl entropy among the quantum states with a given von Neumann entropy, and prove that it is achieved by thermal Gaussian states. This result determines the relation between the von Neumann and the Wehrl entropies. The key idea is proving that the quantum-classical channel that associates to a quantum state its Husimi Q representation is asymptotically equivalent to the Gaussian quantum-limited amplifier with infinite amplification parameter. This equivalence also permits to determine the p->q norms of the aforementioned quantum-classical channel in the two particular cases of one mode and p=q, and prove that they are achieved by thermal Gaussian states. The same equivalence permits to prove that the Husimi Q representation of a one-mode passive state (i.e. a state diagonal in the Fock basis with eigenvalues decreasing as the energy increases) majorizes the Husimi Q representation of any other one-mode state with the same spectrum, i.e. it maximizes any convex functional.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.02552

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zbMATH Keywords

von Neumann entropyWehrl entropySchatten normsHusimi \(Q\) representationquantum Gaussian states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Information theory (general) (94A15) Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Quantum optics (81V80) Applications of functional analysis in quantum physics (46N50) Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45) Linear operators belonging to operator ideals (nuclear, (p)-summing, in the Schatten-von Neumann classes, etc.) (47B10) Channel models (including quantum) in information and communication theory (94A40)

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