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View SchemaNonadditive generalization of the quantum Kullback-Leibler divergence for measuring the degree of purification
| Authors | Sumiyoshi Abe |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0301136 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0301136 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.68.032302 |
Abstract
The Kullback-Leibler divergence offers an information-theoretic basis for measuring the difference between two given distributions. Its quantum analog, however, fails to play a corresponding role for comparing two density matrices, if the reference states are pure states. Here, it is shown that nonadditive (nonextensive) generalization of quantum information theory is free from such a difficulty and the associated quantity, termed the quantum q-divergence, can in fact be a good information-theoretic measure of the degree of purification. The correspondence relation between the ordinary divergence and the q-divergence is violated for the pure reference states, in general.
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