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Entropy increase under nonselective projective measurement
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Von Neumann entropy
2026-09-28
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If
σ
=
∑
i
P
i
ρ
P
i
is
a
nonselective projective measurement
, then
S
(
σ
)
≥
S
(
ρ
)
. Equality holds exactly when
ρ
is already block
diagonal
in the measurement decomposition, equivalently
[
ρ
,
P
i
]
=
0
for every
i
.
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