Entropy and Optimal Decompositions of States Relative to a Maximal Commutative Subalgebra

  • Authors:
  • Armin Uhlmann

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Leipzig, Augustusplatz 10, D-04109, Leipzig, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Open Systems & Information Dynamics
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

To calculate the entropy of a subalgebra or of a channel with respect to a state, one has to solve an intriguing optimalization problem. The latter is also the key part in the entanglement of formation concept, in which case the subalgebra is a subfactor.I consider some general properties, valid for these definitions in finite dimensions, and apply them to a maximal commutative subalgebra of a full matrix algebra. The main method is an interplay between convexity and symmetry. A collection of helpful tools from convex analysis is collected in an appendix.