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Structure of states which satisfy strong subadditivity of quantum entropy with equality

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We give an explicit characterisation of the quantum states which saturate the strong subadditivity inequality for the von Neumann entropy. By combining a result of Petz characterising the equality case for the monotonicity of relative entropy with a recent theorem by Koashi and Imoto, we show that such states will have the form of a so-called short quantum Markov chain, which in turn implies that two of the systems are independent conditioned on the third, in a physically meaningful sense. This characterisation simultaneously generalises known necessary and sufficient entropic conditions for quantum error correction as well as the conditions for the achievability of the Holevo bound on accessible information.

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Random dilation superchannel

quant-ph · 2025-12-24 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Presents a poly-complexity quantum circuit implementing the random dilation superchannel for parallel channel queries, with approximate sequential extension, a no-go theorem for exact sequential dilation, and an application to exponentially improved channel storage-retrieval.

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  • The entropy of bulk quantum fields and the entanglement wedge of an evaporating black hole hep-th · 2019-05-21 · conditional · none · ref 49 · internal anchor

    In a 2d evaporating black hole model, large boosts create O(1/G_N) gradients in bulk entropy that move the quantum extremal surface, causing the generalized entropy to follow unitary expectations with information disappearing after a scrambling time and a phase transition at the Page time.