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arxiv: math-ph/0609019 · v2 · submitted 2006-09-07 · 🧮 math-ph · math.MP

The Wigner-Yanase entropy is not subadditive

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keywords entropywigner-yanaserespectstatesubadditiveaggregationconcaveconjecture
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Wigner and Yanase introduced in 1963 the Wigner-Yanase entropy defined as minus the skew information of a state with respect to a conserved observable. They proved that the Wigner-Yanase entropy is a concave function in the state and conjectured that it is subadditive with respect to the aggregation of possibly interacting subsystems. While this turned out to be true for the quantum-mechanical entropy, we negate the conjecture for the Wigner-Yanase entropy by providing a counter example.

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