Quantum-Kaniadakis entropy as a measure of quantum correlations through implicit bounds
Narayan S Iyer, Shraddha Sharma
TL;DR
This work investigates how the negative values of the quantum Kaniadakis conditional entropy $S^{\\mathcal{K}}_{\\alpha}(A|B)$ relate to the fully entangled fraction $FEF(\\rho_{AB})$ as a predictor of a state's usefulness for teleportation and its steerability. By deriving explicit expressions for $S^{\\mathcal{K}}_{\\alpha}(A|B)$ and $FEF$ for key states (two-qubit Werner and Weyl states, and their $d\\otimes d$ generalizations including isotropic and Werner states), the authors establish implicit bounds on $FEF$ that must hold when $S^{\\mathcal{K}}_{\\alpha}(A|B)<0$, and identify exception regions where these bounds are inconclusive. They further connect this entropic framework to $k$-copy steering, showing that negative $S^{\\mathcal{K}}_{\\alpha}$ implies $k$-copy steerability for isotropic states under projective measurements for certain $(d,\\alpha, F)$ regimes, thereby providing a practical route to assess steerability via $FEF$. The results extend the entropic-characterization toolkit to higher dimensions and link generalized quantum entropy to operational tasks in quantum information processing, offering new criteria to certify non-usefulness for teleportation and to certify steerability via FEF-based bounds.
Abstract
In the present article, we examine the relationship of negative conditional quantum Kaniadakis entropy ($α-$CQKE) with the fully entangled fraction (FEF) which is a substantial yardstick for quantum information processing protocols including teleportation, and quantum steerability, executed over four vital quantum states with maximally mixed marginals, the 2-qubit Werner state, the 2-qubit Weyl state, the 2-qudit Werner state and the isotropic state. We initiate our analysis in 2$\otimes$2 systems where we derive implicit bounds on FEF when the $α-$CQKE takes negative values, i.e. when $α-$CQKE $\in$ $R^{-}$ for 2-qubit Werner state. Consequently, we derive the sufficient implicit bounds for a definitive claim on the non-usefulness of Werner state for quantum teleportation provided its visibility parameter succeeds to elude a critical region, the exception region 1, where the situation becomes inconclusive. Subsequently, we replicate the same for the 2-qubit Weyl state with some constraints augmented by an analogous exception region 2 and the correlation tensor matrix elements. Furthermore, we extend our investigation to d $\otimes$ d states, commencing our analysis with the Isotropic state. We derive implicit bounds on FEF of the Isotropic state and the 2-qudit Werner state resembling the ones in the 2$\otimes$2 analysis. Additionally, we utilize the convoluted relationship between the FEF and quantum steerability to formulate propositions linking negative $α-$CQKE to the k-copy steerability of isotropic states for projective measurements, thereby reducing the intricacy of the study of k-copy steerability directly via FEF. In the appendix section of the article, we provide corroborative calculations and supplementary materials to the theorems presented in the main sections.
