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The entropy power inequality for independent random vectors is a foundational result of information theory, with deep connections to probability and geometric functional analysis. Several extensions of the entropy power inequality have been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Mokshay Madiman , James Melbourne , Cyril Roberto

We formulate a novel approach to decoherence based on neglecting observationally inaccessible correlators. We apply our formalism to a renormalised interacting quantum field theoretical model. Using out-of-equilibrium field theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jurjen F. Koksma , Tomislav Prokopec , Michael G. Schmidt

The entanglement properties of random quantum states or dynamics are important to the study of a broad spectrum of disciplines of physics, ranging from quantum information to high energy and many-body physics. This work investigates the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Zi-Wen Liu , Seth Lloyd , Elton Yechao Zhu , Huangjun Zhu

We describe a quantum algorithm to estimate the $\alpha$-Renyi entropy of an unknown density matrix $\rho\in\mathcal{C}^{d\times d}$ for $\alpha\neq 1$ by combining the recent technique of quantum singular value transformations with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Sathyawageeswar Subramanian , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

Entanglement entropy appears as a central property of quantum systems in broad areas of physics. However, its precise value is often sensitive to unknown microphysics, rendering it incalculable. By considering parametric dependence on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-09 Mark P. Hertzberg , Frank Wilczek

Area laws describe how entanglement entropy scales and thus provide important necessary conditions for efficient quantum many-body simulation, but they do not, by themselves, yield a direct measure of computational complexity. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Anna O. Schouten , David A. Mazziotti

Entropies associated with spatial subsystems in conventional local quantum field theories are typically divergent when the spatial regions have boundaries. However, in certain linear combinations of the entropies for various subsystems,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-01 Mark Van Raamsdonk

I compute the leading contribution to the ground state Renyi entropy $S_{\alpha}$ for a region of linear size $L$ in a Fermi liquid. The result contains a universal boundary law violating term simply related the more familiar entanglement…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-10-03 Brian Swingle

In this work we consider the time evolution of charged Renyi entanglement entropies after exciting the vacuum with local fermionic operators. In order to explore the information contained in charged Renyi entropies, we perform computations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 Pawel Caputa , Masahiro Nozaki , Tokiro Numasawa

We derive several new results for Renyi entropy, $S_n$, across generic entangling surfaces. We establish a perturbative expansion of the Renyi entropy, valid in generic quantum field theories, in deformations of a given density matrix. When…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Aitor Lewkowycz , Eric Perlmutter

We calculate in detail the Renyi entanglement entropies of cTPQ states as a function of subsystem volume, filling the details of our prior work [Nature Communications 9, 1635 (2018)], where the formulas were first presented. Working in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-30 Hiroyuki Fujita , Yuya O. Nakagawa , Sho Sugiura , Masataka Watanabe

It is commonly believed that area laws for entanglement entropies imply that a quantum many-body state can be faithfully represented by efficient tensor network states - a conjecture frequently stated in the context of numerical simulations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-08 Yimin Ge , Jens Eisert

After a brief introduction to the concept of entanglement in quantum systems, I apply these ideas to many-body systems and show that the von Neumann entropy is an effective way of characterising the entanglement between the degrees of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 John Cardy

We introduce R\'enyi entropy of a subsystem energy as a natural quantity which closely mimics the behavior of the entanglement entropy and can be defined for all the quantum many body systems. For this purpose, consider a quantum chain in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-13 Khadijeh Najafi , M. A. Rajabpour

Recent proposals of measuring bipartite Renyi entropy experimentally involve techniques that hold exactly for non-interacting quantum particles. Here we consider the difference between such measurements and the actual Renyi entropy for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-05-02 Norm M. Tubman , Jeremy McMinis

We provide a prescription to construct R\'{e}nyi and von Neumann entropy of a system of interacting fermions from a knowledge of its correlation functions. We show that R\'{e}nyi entanglement entropy of interacting fermions in arbitrary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-09 Saranyo Moitra , Rajdeep Sensarma

Using relative entropy, we derive bounds on the time rate of change of geometric entanglement entropy for any relativistic quantum field theory in any dimension. The bounds apply to both mixed and pure states, and may be extended to curved…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-10 Steven G. Avery , Miguel F. Paulos

Entropy measures quantify the amount of information and correlation present in a quantum system. In practice, when the quantum state is unknown and only copies thereof are available, one must resort to the estimation of such entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 Ziv Goldfeld , Dhrumil Patel , Sreejith Sreekumar , Mark M. Wilde

We derive a general formula for the replica partition function in the vacuum state, for a large class of interacting theories with fermions, with or without gauge fields, using the equal-time formulation on the light front. The result is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-29 Yizhuang Liu , Maciej A. Nowak , Ismail Zahed

In local quantum circuits with charge conservation, we initialize the system in random product states and study the dynamics of the Renyi entanglement entropy $R_\alpha$. We rigorously prove that $R_\alpha$ with Renyi index $\alpha>1$ at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-21 Yichen Huang