Superadditivity of Quantum Relative Entropy for General States

Publication date 19 September 2018

Abstract: The property of superadditivity of the quantum relative entropy states that, in a bipartite system

m a t h c a l H_{A B} = m a t h c a l H_{A} o t i m e s m a t h c a l H_{B}

, for every density operator

h o_{A B}

one has

D (h o_{A B} | | s i g m a_{A} o t i m e s s i g m a_{B}) g e D (h o_{A} | | s i g m a_{A}) + D (h o_{B} | | s i g m a_{B})

. In this work, we provide an extension of this inequality for arbitrary density operators

s i g m a_{A B}

. More specifically, we prove that

a l p h a (s i g m a_{A B}) c d o t D (h o_{A B} | | s i g m a_{A B}) g e D (h o_{A} | | s i g m a_{A}) + D (h o_{B} | | s i g m a_{B})

holds for all bipartite states

h o_{A B}

and

s i g m a_{A B}

, where

a l p h a (s i g m a_{A B}) = 1 + 2 | | s i g m a_{A}^{- 1 / 2} o t i m e s s i g m a_{B}^{- 1 / 2}, s i g m a_{A B}, s i g m a_{A}^{- 1 / 2} o t i m e s s i g m a_{B}^{- 1 / 2} - m a t h b b 1_{A B} | |_{i} n f t y

.

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