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Jensen-Shannon divergence as a measure of distinguishability between mixed quantum states

Jensen-Shannon divergence as a measure of distinguishability between mixed quantum states

We discuss an alternative to relative entropy as a measure of distance between mixed quantum states. The proposed quantity is an extension to the realm of quantum theory of the Jensen-Shannon divergence (JSD) between probability distributions. The JSD has several interesting properties. It arises in information theory and, unlike the …