Entropic and Information Inequalities for Indivisible Qudit Systems*

Abstract

We present the idea that in both classical and quantum systems all correlations available for composite multipartite systems, e.g., bipartite systems, exist as “hidden correlations” in indivisible (noncomposite) systems. The presence of correlations is expressed by entropic-information inequalities known for composite systems like the subadditivity condition. We show that the mathematically identical subadditivity condition and the mutual information nonnegativity are available as well for noncomposite systems like a single-qudit state. We demonstrate an explicit form of the subadditivity condition for a qudit with j = 2 or the five-level atom. We consider the possibility to check the subadditivity condition (entropic inequality) in experiments where such a system is realized by the superconducting circuit based on Josephson-junction devices.