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arXiv:2307.14089 · Journal of the European Mathematical Society

The generalized Wehrl entropy bound in quantitative form

Rupert L. Frank, Fabio Nicola, Paolo Tilli

Published Jul 8, 2025• 3 citations
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Abstract

Lieb and Carlen have shown that mixed states with minimal Wehrl entropy are coherent states. We prove that mixed states with almost minimal Wehrl entropy are almost coherent states. This is proved in a quantitative sense where both the norm and the exponent are optimal and the constant is explicit. We prove a similar bound for generalized Wehrl entropies. As an application, a sharp quantitative form of the log-Sobolev inequality for functions in the Fock space is provided.

DOI
10.4171/jems/1674

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Wehrl used Glauber coherent states to define a map from quantum density matrices to classical phase space densities and conjectured that for Glauber coherent states the mininimum classical entropy would occur for density matrices equal to projectors onto coherent states. This was proved by Lieb in 1978 who also extended the conjecture to Bloch SU(2) spin-coherent states for every angular momentum J. This conjecture is proved here. We also recall our 1991 extension of the Wehrl map to a quantum channel from J to K=J+12,J+1,..., with K=∞ corresponding to the Wehrl map to classical densities. These channels were later recognized as the optimal quantum cloning channels. For each J and J<K⩽∞ we show that the minimal output entropy for the channels occurs for a J coherent state. We also show that coherent states both Glauber and Bloch minimize any concave functional, not just entropy.