Entanglement Rényi $α$-entropy

Abstract

We study the entanglement Rényi $α$-entropy (ER$α$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$α$E gives a continuous spectrum parametrized by variable $α$ as the entanglement measure, and it reduces to the standard EoF in the special case $α\rightarrow 1$. The ER$α$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$α$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$α$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.

11 pages, 4 figures