Conjecture on independence of optimal states from the dual Rényi indices

Let UU be any unitary operator linking two observables, and let α,β>12\alpha,\beta>\frac12 satisfy the duality relation

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A state is called optimal for a pair (α,β)(\alpha,\beta) if it attains the optimal entropic uncertainty bound for those indices.

Independence conjecture. If ρ\rho is optimal for UU and one dual pair (α,β)(\alpha,\beta), then ρ\rho is also optimal for every other dual pair.

The claim excludes the extremal pair {α,β}={1/2,}\{\alpha,\beta\}=\{1/2,\infty\}. The source presents numerical evidence that differently shaped optimal bounds can nevertheless be traced out by the same states.

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Kais Abdelkhalek, René Schwonnek, Hans Maassen, Fabian Furrer, Jörg Duhme, Philippe Raynal, Berthold-Georg Englert and Reinhard F. Werner, “Optimality of entropic uncertainty relations”, arXiv:1509.00398 (2015).

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