Abstract
I show that different legitimate measures of the amount of diffraction lead to contradictory conclusions concerning the beam profile that experiences minimum diffraction for a given beam width. In particular, when the Rényi entropy is used, the Gaussian beams no longer provide minimum diffraction, i.e., they do not have maximum quality.
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