What is Entropy? A new perspective from games of chance
Quantum Physics
2022-02-23 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
Given entropy's central role in multiple areas of physics and science, one important task is to develop a systematic and unifying approach to defining entropy. Games of chance become a natural candidate for characterising the uncertainty of a physical system, as a system's performance in gambling games depends solely on the uncertainty of its output. In this work, we construct families of games which induce pre-orders corresponding to majorization, conditional majorization, and channel majorization. Finally, we provide operational interpretations for all pre-orders, show the relevance of these results to dynamical resource theories, and find the only asymptotically continuous classical dynamic entropy.
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@article{arxiv.2103.08681,
title = {What is Entropy? A new perspective from games of chance},
author = {Sarah Brandsen and Isabelle Jianing Geng and Gilad Gour},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.08681},
year = {2022}
}
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11 pages, 6 figures