On a quantum version of Shannon's conditional entropy

Details On a quantum version of Shannon's conditional entropy On a quantum version of Shannon's conditional entropy

2000-03-14

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0003048v1

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Quantum Physics

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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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