New additivity properties of the relative entropy of entanglement and its generalizations

We prove that the relative entropy of entanglement is additive when at least one of the two states belongs to some specific class. We show that these classes include bipartite pure, maximally correlated, GHZ, Bell diagonal, isotropic, and generalized Dicke states. Previously, additivity was established only if both states belong to the same class. Moreover, we extend these results to entanglement monotones based on the α-z Rényi relative entropy. Notably, this family of monotones includes also the generalized robustness of entanglement and the geometric measure of entanglement. In addition, we prove that any monotone based on a quantum relative entropy is not additive for general states. We also compute closed-form expressions of the monotones for bipartite pure, Bell diagonal, isotropic, generalized Werner, generalized Dicke, and maximally correlated Bell diagonal states. Our results rely on developing a method that allows us to recast the initial convex optimization problem into a simpler linear one. Even though we mostly focus on entanglement theory, we expect that some of our technical results could be useful in investigating more general convex optimization problems.