Convergence Conditions of Mixed States and their von Neumann Entropy in Continuous Quantum Measurements

Toru Fuda

Published 2013-12-06Version 1

By carrying out appropriate continuous quantum measurements with a family of projection operators, a unitary channel can be approximated in an arbitrary precision in the trace norm sense. In particular, the quantum Zeno effect is described as an application. In the case of an infinite dimension, although the von Neumann entropy is not necessarily continuous, the difference of the entropies between the states, as mentioned above, can be arbitrarily made small under some conditions.