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Entropy and the Uncertainty Principle

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We generalize, improve and unify theorems of Rumin, and Maassen–Uffink about classical entropies associated with quantum density matrices. These theorems refer to the classical entropies of the diagonals of a density matrix in two different bases. Thus, they provide a kind of uncertainty principle. Our inequalities are sharp because they are exact in the high-temperature or semi-classical limit.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Washington Road, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA

    Rupert L. Frank

  2. Departments of Mathematics and Physics, Princeton University, P. O. Box 708, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA

    Elliott H. Lieb

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The work was partially supported by NSF Grants PHY-1068285 (R.L.F.) and PHY-0965859 (E.H.L.).

Communicated by Bernard Nienhuis.

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Frank, R.L., Lieb, E.H. Entropy and the Uncertainty Principle. Ann. Henri Poincaré 13, 1711–1717 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-012-0175-y

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Keywords

  • Entropy
  • Density Matrix
  • Discrete Fourier Transform
  • Uncertainty Principle
  • Trace Class