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Maximum entropy of a quantum state
(
S
(
ρ
)
≤
lo
g
2
d
)
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On
a
d
-dimensional
Hilbert space
, the
Von Neumann entropy
is maximized uniquely by
I
/
d
. Indeed,
nonnegativity of quantum relative entropy
gives
0
≤
D
(
ρ
∥
I
/
d
)
=
lo
g
2
d
−
S
(
ρ
)
,
(1)
with equality exactly when
ρ
=
I
/
d
.
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