7 von Neumann entropy
This chapter deals with the relevant concepts and properties of von Neumann entropy of input quantum states before they are transmitted through the quantum channels from the sender to the receiver. In particular, continuity and/or discontinuity of von Neumann entropy on the whole space of or on certain closed convex subsets of will be explored. These properties play an important role in developing and defining channel capacities in later chapters. The topics represented here are sufficient enough for the study of infinite-dimensional quantum information with memory. For other topics of quantum entropies not touched in this book, the readers are referred to the paper by Wehrl [175] and the book by Ohya and Petz ...
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