Laura Burri

Laura Burri

The doubly minimized Petz Renyi mutual information of order $α$ is defined as the minimization of the Petz divergence of order $α$ of a fixed bipartite quantum state relative to any product state. The doubly minimized sandwiched Renyi mutual information is defined analogously using the sandwiched divergence in place of the Petz divergence. In this work, we establish several properties of these two types of Renyi mutual information. In particular, for the Petz case, we prove additivity for $α\in [1/2,2]$. For the sandwiched case, we establish a novel duality relation for $α\in [2/3,\infty]$ via Sion's minimax theorem, and we subsequently use this duality relation to prove additivity for the same range of $α$. Previously, additivity for the sandwiched case was known only for $α\in [1,\infty]$, but it had been conjectured to hold for $α\in [1/2,\infty]$.

Laura Burri

The doubly minimized Petz Renyi mutual information of order $α$ is defined as the minimum of the Petz divergence of order $α$ of a given bipartite quantum state relative to all product states. The doubly minimized sandwiched Renyi mutual information is defined analogously, with the Petz divergence replaced by the sandwiched divergence. In this work, we study certain binary quantum state discrimination problems related to correlation detection. We show that the corresponding direct exponent is determined by the doubly minimized Petz Renyi mutual information of order $α\in (1/2,1)$, and that the strong converse exponent is determined by the doubly minimized sandwiched Renyi mutual information of order $α\in (1,\infty)$. This provides an operational interpretation of these types of Renyi mutual information and generalizes previous results for classical probability distributions to the quantum setting. For completeness, we also study the corresponding moderate deviation regime both below and above the threshold, and determine the Stein exponent and the second-order asymptotics.

Lukas Schmitt, Filippo Girardi, Laura Burri

We study a doubly minimized variant of the lautum information - a reversed analogue of the mutual information - defined as the minimum relative entropy between any product state and a fixed bipartite quantum state; we refer to this measure as the tumula information. In addition, we introduce the corresponding Petz Renyi version, which we call the doubly minimized Petz Renyi lautum information (PRLI). We derive several general properties of these correlation measures and provide an operational interpretation in the context of hypothesis testing. Specifically, we show that the reverse direct exponent of certain binary quantum state discrimination problems is quantified by the doubly minimized PRLI of order $α\in (0,1/2)$, and that the Sanov exponent is determined by the tumula information. Furthermore, we investigate the extension of the tumula information to channels and compare its properties with previous results on the channel umlaut information [Girardi et al., arXiv:2503.21479].