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We prove that the quantum relative entropy decreases monotonically under the application of any positive trace-preserving linear map, for underlying separable Hilbert spaces. This answers in the affirmative a natural question that has been open for a long time, as monotonicity had previously only been shown to hold under additional assumptions, such as complete positivity or Schwarz-positivity of the adjoint map. The first step in our proof is to show monotonicity of the sandwiched Renyi divergences under positive trace-preserving maps, extending a proof of the data processing inequality by Beigi (J Math Phys 54:122202, 2013) that is based on complex interpolation techniques. Our result calls into question several measures of non-Markovianity that have been proposed, as these would assess all positive trace-preserving time evolutions as Markovian.
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Müller-Hermes, A., Reeb, D. Monotonicity of the Quantum Relative Entropy Under Positive Maps. Ann. Henri Poincaré 18, 1777–1788 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-017-0550-9
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