The Wigner-Yanase entropy is not subadditive

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  • Frank Hansen
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.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftJournal of Statistical Physics
Vol/bind126
Udgave nummer3
Sider (fra-til)643-648
ISSN0022-4715
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2007

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JEL classification: C02

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