Abstract
AbstractThe relative entropy of entanglement $$E_R$$
E
R
is defined as the distance of a multipartite quantum state from the set of separable states as measured by the quantum relative entropy. We show that this optimisation is always achieved, i.e. any state admits a closest separable state, even in infinite dimensions; also, $$E_R$$
E
R
is everywhere lower semi-continuous. We use this to derive a dual variational expression for $$E_R$$
E
R
in terms of an external supremum instead of infimum. These results, which seem to have gone unnoticed so far, hold not only for the relative entropy of entanglement and its multipartite generalisations, but also for many other similar resource quantifiers, such as the relative entropy of non-Gaussianity, of non-classicality, of Wigner negativity—more generally, all relative entropy distances from the sets of states with non-negative $$\lambda $$
λ
-quasi-probability distribution. The crucial hypothesis underpinning all these applications is the weak*-closedness of the cone generated by free states, and for this reason, the techniques we develop involve a bouquet of classical results from functional analysis. We complement our analysis by giving explicit and asymptotically tight continuity estimates for $$E_R$$
E
R
and closely related quantities in the presence of an energy constraint.
Funder
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Mathematical Physics,Nuclear and High Energy Physics,Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
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