Lieb's Wehrl entropy lower-bound conjecture for spin states

Let Fj{\mathcal F}_j be the spin-jj function space, let 2\lVert\cdot\rVert_2 be the normalized norm, and let

Sj(f2):=2j+1πCf(z)2lnf(z)2d2z(1+z2)2S_j(|f|^2):=-\frac{2j+1}{\pi}\int_{\mathbb C}|f(z)|^2\ln|f(z)|^2\frac{d^2z}{(1+|z|^2)^2}

be the Wehrl entropy of an fFjf\in{\mathcal F}_j normalized by f2=1\lVert f\rVert_2=1. Lieb's Wehrl entropy conjecture. For every such ff,

Sj(f2)2j2j+1,S_j(|f|^2)\geq\frac{2j}{2j+1},

and equality holds whenever ff is, up to a unimodular constant, a coherent vector. This bound would follow by endpoint differentiation from the preceding norm or Rényi–Wehrl conjecture. The source says that the relevant even-integer cases were known, but that the argument near q=2q=2 was not available there; consequently the full entropy bound remained conjectural in the source.

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Primary source

Bernhard G. Bodmann, “A lower bound for the Wehrl entropy of quantum spin with sharp high-spin asymptotics”, arXiv:math-ph/0307061 (2003).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2002–2003). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math-ph/0206021.

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