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A. S. Holevo

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Log-Sobolev inequality, von Neumann entropy and Entanglement of Formation

We present two results derived from the sharp log-Sobolev inequality for the uniform measure on a complete graph which concern the von Neumann entropy and the Entanglement of Formation of a state of finite and infinite-dimensional quantum systems. The first result is a sharp Lipschitz lower semicontinuity bound for the von Neumann entropy at any mixed state $ρ$ with uniform positive spectrum (i.e. a state proportional to a projector) w.r.t. the fidelity deficit: the inequality $\,S(ρ)-S(σ)\leq C_ρ(1-F(ρ,σ))\,$ valid for any state $σ$, where $C_ρ$ is a constant depending on the rank of $ρ$. The second result is a sharp Lipschitz lower semicontinuity bound for the Entanglement of Formation at any pure state $ρ$ with uniform positive spectrum of marginal states w.r.t. the fidelity deficit: the inequality $\,E_F(ρ)-E_F(σ)\leq C_ρ(1-\mathrm{Tr}ρσ)\,$ valid for any state $σ$, where $C_ρ$ is a constant depending on the Schmidt rank of $ρ$. In both cases the optimal constant $C_ρ$ is equal to the optimal constant $K_{d}$ in the log-Sobolev inequality for the complete graph with $d$ vertices: in the first case $d=\mathrm{rank}ρ$, in the second one $d=\mathrm{rank}ρ_A=\mathrm{rank}ρ_B$. The authors are grateful to GPT 5.6 for valuable discussion and technical help in preparing this note.

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On supporting affine functionals for Entanglement of Formation

In several articles, the authors assume that the convex roof structure of the EoF and finite-dimensionality of subsystems $A$ and $B$ guarantee the existence of the (global) supporting affine functional for the EoF at any state of the system $AB$. This means that for any state $ρ$ of $AB$ there is a Hermitian operator $Λ_ρ$ on $\mathcal{H}_{AB}=\mathcal{H}_A\otimes\mathcal{H}_B$ such that $E_F(ρ)=\mathrm{Tr}Λ_ρρ$ and $E_F(σ)\geq\mathrm{Tr}Λ_ρσ$ for any state $σ$ of $AB$. We present an explicit example showing that, when $ρ$ is degenerate, this is not true even in the simplest case when $A$ and $B$ are qubit systems. The construction is based on the fact that the existence of a supporting affine functional for the EoF at a state $ρ$ is equivalent to the Lipschitz lower semicontinuity of the EoF at this state $ρ$. We use Wootters' formula and the help of Claude Fable 5 to find a state $ρ$ of the system $AB$ for which the latter property does not hold. We also describe conditions for the existence the local and global supporting affine functionals for the EoF at a given state of both finite and infinite-dimensional bipartite quantum systems. These conditions allow us to find Lipschitz lower semicontinuity bounds for the EoF at a given finite rank state $ρ$ (i.e. inequalities of the form $\,E_F(ρ)-E_F(σ)\leq C_ρ\|ρ-σ\|_1$) with and without restrictions on the support of the state $σ$.

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Quantum accessible information and classical entropy inequalities

Computing accessible information for an ensemble of quantum states is a basic problem in quantum information theory. We show that the recently obtained optimality criterion (A.S. Holevo, Lobachevskii J. Math., \textbf{43}:7 (2022), 1646-1650), when applied to specific ensembles of states leads to nontrivial tight entropy inequalities that are discrete relatives of the famous log-Sobolev inequality. In this light, the hypothesis of globally information-optimal measurement for an ensemble of equiangular equiprobable states (quantum pyramids) (B.-G. Englert and J. Řeháček, J. Mod. Optics \textbf{57 }N3 (2010) 218-226) is reconsidered and the corresponding entropy inequalities are proposed. Via the optimality criterion, this suggests also an approach to the proof of the conjectures concerning globally information-optimal observables for quantum pyramids.

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A conjecture on a tight norm inequality in the finite-dimensional l_p

We suggest a tight inequality for norms in $d$-dimensional space $l_p $ which has simple formulation but appears hard to prove. We give a proof for $d=3$ and provide a detailed numerical check for $d\leq 200$ confirming the conjecture. We conclude with a brief survey of solutions for kin problems which anyhow concern minimization of the output entropy of certain quantum channel and rely upon the symmetry properties of the problem. Key words and phrases: $l_p $-norm, Rényi entropy, tight inequality, maximization of a convex function.

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On estimates of the Bures distance between bosonic Gaussian states

The aim of the present note is to show that the method of our paper ArXiv:2408.11400 with minor extra efforts can be extended to obtain upper bounds for the Bures distance between quantum Gaussian states. We argue that these bounds are better adapted to the Bures distance and hence to the state estimation and learning with the Bures distance rather than that with the trace-norm distance.

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On estimates of trace-norm distance between quantum Gaussian states

In the paper of F.A. Mele, A.A. Mele, L. Bittel, J. Eisert, V. Giovannetti, L. Lami, L. Leone, S.F.E. Oliviero, ArXiv:2405.01431, estimates for the trace-norm distance between two quantum Gaussian states in terms of the mean vectors and covariance matrices were derived and used to evaluate the sample complexity of learning quantum energy-constrained Gaussian states. In the present paper we obtain different estimates; our proof is based on a fidelity-like quantity which we call states overlap, and is more straightforward leading to estimates which are sometimes even more stringent, especially in the cases of pure or gauge-invariant states. They do not depend on number of modes and hence can be extended to the case of bosonic field with infinite number of modes. These derivations are not aimed to replace the useful inequalities from ArXiv:2405.01431; they just show an alternative approach to the problem leading to different results. In the Appendix we briefly recall our results concerning estimates of the overlap for general fermionic Gaussian states of CAR. The problem studied in this paper can be considered as a noncommutative analog of estimation of the total variance distance between Gaussian probability distributions in the classical probability theory.

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Log-Sobolev inequality and proof of Hypothesis of the Gaussian Maximizers for the capacity of quantum noisy homodyning

In the present paper we give proof that the information-transmission capacity of the approximate position measurement with the oscillator energy constraint, which underlies noisy Gaussian homodyning in quantum optics, is attained on Gaussian encoding. The proof is based on general principles of convex programming. Rather remarkably, for this particular model the method reduces the solution of the optimization problem to a generalization of the celebrated log-Sobolev inequality. We hope that this method should work also for other models lying out of the scope of the "threshold condition" ensuring that the upper bound for the capacity as a difference between the maximum and the minimum output entropies is attainable.

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Proof of the Gaussian maximizers conjecture for the communication capacity of noisy heterodyne measurements

Basing on recently developed convex programming framework in the paper [arXiv:2204.10626], we provide a proof for a long-standing conjecture on optimality of Gaussian encondings for the ultimate communication rate of generalized heterodyne receivers under the oscillator energy constraint. Our results generalize previous ones (obtained under the assumption of validity of the energy threshold condition) and show a drastic difference in the structure of the optimal encoding within and beyond this condition. The core of the proof in the case beyond the threshold is a new log-Sobolev type inequality, which relates the generalized Wehrl entropy with the wavefunction gradient.

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Accessible information of a general quantum Gaussian ensemble

Accessible information, which is a basic quantity in quantum information theory, is computed for a general quantum Gaussian ensemble under certain "threshold condition". It is shown that the maximizing measurement is Gaussian, constituting a far-reaching generalization of the optical heterodyning. This substantially extends the previous result concerning the gauge-invariant case, even for a single bosonic mode.

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On the classical capacity of quantum Gaussian measurement

In this paper we consider the classical capacity problem for Gaussian measurement channels without imposing any kind of threshold condition. We prove Gaussianity of the average state of the optimal ensemble in general and discuss the Hypothesis of Gaussian Maximizers concerning the structure of the ensemble. The proof uses an approach of Wolf, Giedke and Cirac adapted to the convex closure of the output differential entropy. Then we discuss the case of one mode in detail, including the dual problem of accessible information of a Gaussian ensemble. In quantum communications there are several studies of the classical capacity in the transmission scheme where not only the Gaussian channel but also the receiver is fixed, and the optimization is performed over certain set of the input ensembles. These studies are practically important in view of the complexity of the optimal receiver in the Quantum Channel Coding (HSW) theorem. Our findings are relevant to such a situation where the receiver is Gaussian and concatenation of the channel and the receiver can be considered as one Gaussian measurement channel. Our efforts in this and preceding papers are then aimed at establishing full Gaussianity of the optimal ensemble (usually taken as an assumption) in such schemes.

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The structure of general quantum Gaussian observable

The structure theorem is established which shows that an arbitrary multi-mode bosonic Gaussian observable can be represented as a combination of four basic cases, the physical prototypes of which are homodyne and heterodyne, noiseless or noisy, measurements in quantum optics. The proof establishes connection between the description of Gaussian observable in terms of the characteristic function and in terms of density of the probability operator-valued measure (POVM) and has remarkable parallels with treatment of bosonic Gaussian channels in terms of their Choi-Jamiolkowski form. Along the way we give the ``most economical'', in the sense of minimal dimensions of the quantum ancilla, construction of the Naimark extension of a general Gaussian observable. It is also shown that the Gaussian POVM has bounded operator-valued density with respect to the Lebesgue measure if and only if its noise covariance matrix is nondegenerate.

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Quantum information aspects of approximate position measurement

We perform a quantum information analysis for multi-mode Gaussian approximate position measurements, underlying noisy homodyning in quantum optics. The "Gaussian maximizer" property is established for the entropy reduction of these measurements which provides explicit formulas for computations including their entanglement-assisted capacity. The case of one mode is discussed in detail.

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Information capacity of continuous variable measurement channel

The present paper is devoted to investigation of the classical capacity of infinite-dimensional quantum measurement channels. A number of usable conditions are introduced that enable us to apply previously obtained general results to specific models, in particular, to the multi-mode bosonic Gaussian measurement channels. An explicit formula for the classical capacity of the Gaussian measurement channel is obtained in this paper without assuming the global gauge symmetry, solely under certain "threshold condition". The result is illustrated by the capacity computation for one-mode squeezed-noise heterodyne measurement channel.

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The information capacity of entanglement-assisted continuous variable measurement

The present paper is devoted to investigation of the entropy reduction and entanglement-assisted classical capacity (information gain) of continuous variable quantum measurements. These quantities are computed explicitly for multimode Gaussian measurement channels. For this we establish a fundamental property of the entropy reduction of a measurement: under a restriction on the second moments of the input state it is maximized by a Gaussian state (providing an analytical expression for the maximum). In the case of one mode, the gain of entanglement assistance is investigated in detail.

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Gaussian maximizers for quantum Gaussian observables and ensembles

In this paper we prove two results related to the Gaussian optimizers conjecture for multimode bosonic system with gauge symmetry. First, we argue that the classical capacity of a Gaussian observable is attained on a Gaussian ensemble of coherent states. This generalizes results previously known for heterodyne measurement in one mode. By using this fact and continuous variable version of ensemble-observable duality, we prove an old conjecture that accessible information of a Gaussian ensemble is attained on the multimode generalization of the heterodyne measurement.

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Energy-constrained diamond norms and quantum dynamical semigroups

In the developing theory of infinite-dimensional quantum channels the relevance of the energy-constrained diamond norms was recently corroborated both from physical and information-theoretic points of view. In this paper we study necessary and sufficient conditions for differentiability with respect to these norms of the strongly continuous semigroups of quantum channels (quantum dynamical semigroups). We show that these conditions can be expressed in terms of the generator of the semigroup. We also analyze conditions for representation of a strongly continuous semigroup of quantum channels as an exponential series converging w.r.t. the energy-constrained diamond norm. Examples of semigroups having such a representation are presented.

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On singular perturbations of quantum dynamical semigroups

We consider two examples of dynamical semigroups obtained by singular perturbations of a standard generator which are special case of unbounded completely positive perturbations studied in detail in [10]. In the section 2 we propose a generalization of an example from [1] aimed to give a positive answer to a conjecture of Arveson. In the section 3 we consider in greater detail an improved and simplified construction of a nonstandard dynamical semigroup outlined in our short communication [13].

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On quantum Gaussian optimizers conjecture in the case q=p

The quantum Gaussian optimizers conjecture says that q-p norm of a Bosonic Gaussian channel is attained on "Gaussian" operators. Recently R.L. Frank and E.H. Lieb confirmed the hypothesis in the case q=p for gauge-covariant channels with arbitrary number of modes s [3]. In the present note we remark that in the case q=p our results in [6] and [9] in fact allow to prove the hypothesis for all Gaussian channels. Thus the condition of gauge covariance, rather crucial in the case q=1,s>1, plays no role in the case q=p.

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