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View SchemaOn a quantum version of Shannon's conditional entropy
| Authors | Robert Schrader |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0003048 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0003048 |
| DOI | 10.1002/1521-3978(200008)48:8<747::AID-PROP747>3.0.CO;2-T |
Abstract
In this article we propose a quantum version of Shannon's conditional entropy. Given two density matrices $\rho$ and $\sigma$ on a finite dimensional Hilbert space and with $S(\rho)=-\tr\rho\ln\rho$ being the usual von Neumann entropy, this quantity $S(\rho|\sigma)$ is concave in $\rho$ and satisfies $0\le S(\rho|\sigma)\le S(\rho)$, a quantum analogue of Shannon's famous inequality. Thus we view $S(\rho|\sigma)$ as the entropy of $\rho$ conditioned by $\sigma$.
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