Basic properties of von Neumann entropy such as the triangle inequality and what we call MONO–SSA are studied for CAR systems. We show that both inequalities hold for every even state by using symmetric purification which is applicable to such a state. We construct a certain class of noneven states giving examples of the nonvalidity of those inequalities.
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