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arxiv: 1408.3502 · v1 · pith:FISEZVUUnew · submitted 2014-08-15 · 🪐 quant-ph · cs.IT· math-ph· math.IT· math.MP

L\"uders' and quantum Jeffrey's rules as entropic projections

classification 🪐 quant-ph cs.ITmath-phmath.ITmath.MP
keywords quantumentropyrelativeanaloguecaseconstrainedjeffreymaximisation
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We prove that the standard quantum mechanical description of a quantum state change due to measurement, given by Lueders' rules, is a special case of the constrained maximisation of a quantum relative entropy functional. This result is a quantum analogue of the derivation of the Bayes--Laplace rule as a special case of the constrained maximisation of relative entropy. The proof is provided for the Umegaki relative entropy of density operators over a Hilbert space as well as for the Araki relative entropy of normal states over a W*-algebra. We also introduce a quantum analogue of Jeffrey's rule, derive it in the same way as above, and discuss the meaning of these results for quantum bayesianism.

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