Quantum Entropy Contraction and Factorization from Hypercontractivity

RESUMO

We prove that hypercontractivity implies entropy contraction for a single quantum channel, without a detailed balance condition. For primitive quantum Markov semigroups that are KMS-symmetric with respect to a faithful invariant state \(\sigma\), we obtain the modified Log-Sobolev bound $\alpha_1\geq \frac{\lambda}{(2+\log\|\sigma^{-1}\|_\infty)}$ where $\lambda$ is the spectral gap. This removes the assumption of \(L_p\)-regularity for the comparison through the log-Sobolev constant. As an application, we show that the hypercontractivity of an average of two conditional expectations implies the approximate tensorization of relative entropy.