Information geometry of sandwiched Rényi $α$-divergence

Abstract: Information geometrical structure $(g^{(D_\alpha)}, \nabla^{(D_\alpha)},\nabla^{(D_\alpha)*})$ induced from the sandwiched R\'enyi $\alpha$-divergence $D_\alpha(\rho|\sigma):=\frac{1}{\alpha (\alpha-1)}\log\,{\rm Tr} \left(\sigma^{\frac{1-\alpha}{2\alpha}}\rho\,\sigma^{\frac{1-\alpha}{2\alpha}}\right)^{\alpha}$ on a finite quantum state space $\mathcal{S}$ is studied. It is shown that the Riemannian metric $g^{(D_\alpha)}$ is monotone if and only if $\alpha\in(-\infty, -1]\cup [\frac{1}{2},\infty)$, and that the quantum statistical manifold $({\mathcal{S}}, g^{(D_\alpha)}, \nabla^{(D_\alpha)},\nabla^{(D_\alpha)*})$ is dually flat if and only if $\alpha=1$.