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Entropy bound for a binary mixture

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The entropy of a binary mixture also satisfies
S(pρ1​+(1−p)ρ2​)≤pS(ρ1​)+(1−p)S(ρ2​)+H(p),
(1)
where H is binary entropy. This follows by applying the operator monotonicity of logarithm to pρ1​≤pρ1​+(1−p)ρ2​ and its counterpart for ρ2​.

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