Entropic Bell inequalities

N. J. Cerf and C. Adami
Phys. Rev. A 55, 3371 – Published 1 May 1997
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Abstract

We derive entropic Bell inequalities from considering entropy Venn diagrams. These entropic inequalities, akin to the Braunstein-Caves inequalities, are violated for a quantum-mechanical Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen pair, which implies that the conditional entropies of Bell variables must be negative in this case. This suggests that the satisfaction of entropic Bell inequalities is equivalent to the non-negativity of conditional entropies as a necessary condition for separability.

  • Received 29 August 1996

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.55.3371

©1997 American Physical Society

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N. J. Cerf1 and C. Adami1,2

  • 1W. K. Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125
  • 2Computation and Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125

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Vol. 55, Iss. 5 — May 1997

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