Journal Article

Holevo bound of entropic uncertainty in Schwarzschild spacetime

Man-Hong, Yung, Xiao, Yunlong, Wen-Cong Gan, Jin-Long, Huang, Fu-Wen, Shu

2018

Overview

For a pair of incompatible quantum measurements, the total uncertainty can be bounded by a state-independent constant. However, such a bound can be violated if the quantum system is entangled with another quantum system (called memory); the quantum correlation between the systems can reduce the measurement uncertainty. On the other hand, in a curved spacetime, the presence of the Hawking radiation can reduce quantum correlation. The interplay of quantum correlation in the curved spacetime has become an interesting arena for studying uncertainty relations. Here we demonstrate that the bounds of the entropic uncertainty relations, in the presence of memory, can be formulated in terms of the Holevo quantity, which limits how much information can be encoded in a quantum system. Specifically, we considered examples with Dirac fields with and without spin, near the event horizon of a Schwarzschild black hole, the Holevo bound provides a better bound than the previous bound based on the mutual information. Furthermore, as the memory moves away from the black hole, the difference between the total uncertainty and the new lower bound remains a constant, not depending on any property of the black hole.

• Publisher: Springer Nature B.V
• Subject: Black holes / Coding / Computer memory / Event horizon / Hawking radiation / Lower bounds / Quantum theory / Spacetime / Uncertainty