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Isospectral majorization and isoperimetric inequalities for coherent states on the Bloch sphere

Luis Daniel Abreu

Abstract

Let $\mathcal{P}_{N}$ be the $(N+1)$-dimensional Hilbert space of analytic polynomials of degree at most $N$. This is the natural environment to define $SU(2)$ (Bloch) coherent states. Let $Q_{ρ}$ be the Husimi function of a density operator $ρ$ on $% \mathcal{P}_{N}$. We prove an isospectral version of Lieb-Solovej inequality: if $ρ^{\downarrow }$ is obtained by placing the eigenvalues of $ρ$ in decreasing order along the monomial basis, then \begin{equation} \int_{\mathbb{C}}Φ(Q_{ρ}(z))\,dm(z)...

Submitted: August 13, 2026Subjects: Quantum Physics; Quantum Computing

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Let PN\mathcal{P}_{N} be the (N+1)(N+1)-dimensional Hilbert space of analytic polynomials of degree at most NN. This is the natural environment to define SU(2)SU(2) (Bloch) coherent states. Let QρQ_{ρ} be the Husimi function of a density operator ρρ on % \mathcal{P}_{N}. We prove an isospectral version of Lieb-Solovej inequality: if ρρ^{\downarrow } is obtained by placing the eigenvalues of ρρ in decreasing order along the monomial basis, then \begin{equation*} \int_{\mathbb{C}}Φ(Q_{ρ}(z)),dm(z)\leq \int_{\mathbb{C}}Φ(Q_{ρ^{\downarrow }}(z)),dm(z) \end{equation*}% for every convex function ΦΦ on [0,1][0,1]. Applying the corresponding reversed inequality to the concave function Φ(t)=tlogtΦ(t)=-t\log t gives the Wehrl entropy. In the process it is show that the output state of ρρ under Lieb-Solovej's channel is majorized by the output of the state ρρ^{\downarrow }. As an application, among all measurable subsets of the sphere having a fixed area, spherical caps maximize every partial sum of the eigenvalues of Toeplitz operators with symbol 1Ω1_Ω. Equivalently, caps maximize all Ky Fan norms, leading to the sharp inequalities, previously known for r=1r=1: \begin{equation*} \sum_{j=1}^{r}λ_{j}(Ω) \leq r-\sum_{k=0}^{r-1}(r-k)\binom{N+1}{k} m(Ω)^{k}\bigl(1-m(Ω)\bigr)^{N+1-k}. \end{equation*} This implies isoperimetric inequalities for all Schatten sums of TΩT_Ω, obtained without using the spherical isoperimetric inequality.


Source: arXiv:2608.12248v1 - http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12248v1 PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.12248v1 Original Link: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12248v1

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Aug 13, 2026
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Quantum Computing
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Quantum Physics
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