A counterexample to the Shannon conjecture following Eq. (69) in Tarabunga et al., Section V.C
The Shannon conjecture following Eq. (69) in Section V.C of Tarabunga et al., arXiv:2411.05766v1, is false. An explicit three-qubit state has stabilizer-basis entropy log 4, whereas the proposed absolute-amplitude lower bound is log 16 - (9/8) log 3 > log 4. The same construction refutes the bound for nonnegative amplitudes, and continuity gives strictly positive examples. It extends to every N >= 3 and to a range of Renyi indices containing one. The collision entropy of the comparison distribution remains a valid Shannon lower bound for arbitrary affine supports. For amplitudes of constant modulus on each affine coset, the original bound holds at every Renyi index; this includes the source's Figure 1 product states.
Authors
- Wenlin Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2414-7968)
- Haobo Ma
Institutions
- National University of Singapore (SG)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-11-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23903315
- Primary Topic
- Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Type
- preprint