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The routine definitions of both entropy, and differential entropy show inconsistencies that make them not reciprocally coherent. We propose a few possible modifications of these quantities so that 1) they no longer show incongruities, 2)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-08 Nicola Cufaro Petroni

Entropic uncertainty relations are quantitative characterizations of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which make use of an entropy measure to quantify uncertainty. In quantum cryptography, they are often used as convenient tools in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-22 Niek J. Bouman , Serge Fehr , Carlos González-Guillén , Christian Schaffner

To find the essential nature of quantum theory has been an important problem for not only theoretical interest but also applications to quantum technologies. In those studies on quantum foundations, the notion of uncertainty plays a primary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Ryo Takakura

The uncertainty principle and entanglement are two fundamental, but yet not well understood, features of quantum theory. The uncertainty relation reflects the capability limit in acquiring the knowledge of different physical properties of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-15 Jun-Li Li , Cong-Feng Qiao

Expanding the black hole thermodynamics from the horizon to achronal Cauchy hypersurface, the general relation between the Einstein equation and thermodynamics is established. Starting from trivial entropy that is generalized by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-14 Jun Chen

A density matrix formulation of classical bipartite correlations is constructed. This leads to an understanding of the appearance of classical statistical correlations intertwined with the quantum correlations as well as a physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. K. Rajagopal , R. W. Rendell

By introducing the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) on quantum density states, we newly obtain a consistent entropy of a scalar field on the (1+1)-dimensional Maxwell-dilaton background without an artificial cutoff in contrast to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Wontae Kim , Yong-Wan Kim , Young-Jai Park

Since its origin in the thermodynamics of the 19th century, the concept of entropy has also permeated other fields of physics and mathematics, such as Classical and Quantum Statistical Mechanics, Information Theory, Probability Theory,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-06 Salomé A. Sepúveda Fontaine , José M. Amigó

Uncertainty relations give upper bounds on the accuracy by which the outcomes of two incompatible measurements can be predicted. While established uncertainty relations apply to cases where the predictions are based on purely classical data…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-18 Marco Tomamichel , Renato Renner

Uncertainty relations are central to quantum physics. While they were originally formulated in terms of variances, they have later been successfully expressed with entropies following the advent of Shannon information theory. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Anaelle Hertz , Nicolas J. Cerf

Generalized uncertainty principles are effective changes to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle that emerge in several quantum gravity models. In the present letter, we study the consequences that two classes of these modifications yield…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-23 Ioannis D. Gialamas , Timo J. Kärkkäinen , Luca Marzola

A theory recently proposed by the author aims to explain decoherence and the thermodynamical behaviour of closed systems within a conservative, unitary, framework for quantum gravity by assuming that the operators tied to the gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Bernard S. Kay

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle has recently led to general measurement uncertainty relations for quantum systems: incompatible observables can be measured jointly or in sequence only with some unavoidable approximation, which can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-27 Alberto Barchielli , Matteo Gregoratti , Alessandro Toigo

The limitation on obtaining precise outcomes of measurements performed on two non-commuting observables of a particle as set by the uncertainty principle in its entropic form, can be reduced in the presence of quantum memory. We derive a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-16 T. Pramanik , P. Chowdhury , A. S. Majumdar

One unique feature of quantum mechanics is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which states that the outcomes of two incompatible measurements cannot simultaneously achieve arbitrary precision. In an information-theoretic context of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Jian Xing , Yu-Ran Zhang , Shang Liu , Yan-Chun Chang , Jie-Dong Yue , Heng Fan , Xin-Yu Pan

The area law-like scaling of local quantum entropies is the central characteristic of the entanglement inherent in quantum fields, many-body systems, and spacetime. Whilst the area law is primarily associated with the entanglement structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-19 Tobias Haas

The von Neumann entropy plays a vital role in quantum information theory. The von Neumann entropy determines, e.g., the capacities of quantum channels. Also, entropies of composite quantum systems are important for future quantum networks,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Christian Majenz

This work is an enquiry into the circumstances under which entropy methods can give an answer to the questions of both quantum separability and classical correlations of a composite state. Several entropy functionals are employed to examine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. K. Rajagopal , R. W. Rendell

We improve the entropic uncertainty relations for position and momentum coarse-grained measurements. We derive the continuous, coarse-grained counterparts of the discrete uncertainty relations based on the concept of majorization. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 Łukasz Rudnicki

Entropy in thermodynamics is an extensive quantity, whereas standard methods in statistical mechanics give rise to a non-extensive expression for the entropy. This discrepancy is often seen as a sign that basic formulas of statistical…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2012-09-06 Dennis Dieks