Böttcher-Wenzel inequality for weighted Frobenius norms and its application to quantum physics

Abstract

By employing a weighted Frobenius norm with a positive matrix $\omega$, we introduce natural generalizations of the famous Böttcher-Wenzel (BW) inequality. Based on the combination of the weighted Frobenius norm $\Vert A{\Vert }_{\omega }:=\sqrt{\mathrm{tr}(A^{\ast }A\omega )}$ and the standard Frobenius norm $\Vert A\Vert :=\sqrt{\mathrm{tr}(A^{\ast }A)}$, there are exactly five possible generalizations, labeled (i) through (v), for the bounds on the norms of the commutator $[A,B]:=AB-BA$. In this paper, we establish the tight bounds for cases (iii) and (v), and propose conjectures regarding the tight bounds for cases (i) and (ii). Additionally, the tight bound for case (iv) is derived as a corollary of case (i). All these bounds (i)-(v) serve as generalizations of the BW inequality. The conjectured bounds for cases (i) and (ii) (and thus also (iv)) are numerically supported for matrices up to size $n=15$. Proofs are provided for $n=2$ and certain special cases. Interestingly, we find applications of these bounds in quantum physics, particularly in the contexts of the uncertainty relation and open quantum dynamics.

arXiv comment18 pages, 2 figures

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