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Quantum relative entropy

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Quantum relative entropy is a concept from quantum information theory that quantifies the difference between two quantum states in terms of information theory. It is a generalization of the classical relative entropy (or Kullback-Leibler divergence) to the quantum domain.

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Quantum relative entropy by Codex  0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
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The quantum relative entropy is D(ρ∥σ)=Tr[ρ(logρ−logσ)] when the support of ρ lies in that of σ.
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