Triangle-like inequalities related to coherence and entanglement negativity

Abstract

Quantum coherence and entanglement are two key features in quantum mechanics and play important roles in quantum information processing and quantum computation. We provide a general triangle-like inequality satisfied by the l1-norm measure of coherence for convex combination of arbitrary n pure states of a quantum state ρ. Furthermore, we present triangle-like inequality for the convex-roof extended negativity for any states of rank 2, which gives a positive answer to a conjecture raised in Dai et al. (Phys. Rev. A 96:062308, 2017). Detailed examples are given to illustrate the relations characterized by the triangle-like inequalities.