Entanglement R\'enyi $\alpha $-entropy

TL;DR

This paper introduces the entanglement Rènyi α-entropy as a new, parametrized measure of quantum entanglement, providing richer information than traditional measures and analyzing its properties for various quantum states.

Contribution

It defines ERαE as a continuous spectrum of entanglement measures, analyzes its properties, and proves a conjecture regarding isotropic states in arbitrary dimensions.

Findings

ERαE can be incomparable for different states, unlike EoF.

Analytical formulas for ERαE are derived for two-qubit, Werner, and isotropic states.

Proof of the conjecture for EoF of isotropic states in arbitrary dimensions.

Abstract

We study the entanglement R\'{e}nyi $\alpha$-entropy (ER$\alpha $E) as the measure of entanglement. Instead of a single quantity in standard entanglement quantification for a quantum state by using the von Neumann entropy for the well-accepted entanglement of formation (EoF), the ER$\alpha $E gives a continuous spectrum parametrized by variable $\alpha $ as the entanglement measure, and it reduces to the standard EoF in the special case $\alpha \rightarrow 1$. The ER$\alpha $E provides more information in entanglement quantification, and can be used such as in determining the convertibility of entangled states by local operations and classical communication. A series of new results are obtained: (i) we can show that ER$\alpha $E of two states, which can be mixed or pure, may be incomparable, in contrast to the fact that there always exists an order for EoF of two states; (ii) similar as the case of EoF, we study in a fully analytical way the ER$\alpha $E for arbitrary two-qubit states, the Werner states and isotropic states in general d-dimension; (iii) we provide a proof of the previous conjecture for the analytical functional form of EoF of isotropic states in arbitrary d-dimension.