Average entropy of a subsystem
- 30 August 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 71 (9) , 1291-1294
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.71.1291
Abstract
If a quantum system of Hilbert space dimension mn is in a random pure state, the average entropy of a subsystem of dimension m≤n is conjectured to be = 1/k-m-1/2n and is shown to be ≃lnm-m/2n for 1≪m≤n. Thus there is less than one-half unit of information, on average, in the smaller subsystem of a total system in a random pure state.
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