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We investigate the additivity properties for both bipartite and multipartite systems by using entropic uncertainty relations (EUR) defined in terms of the joint Shannon entropy of probabilities of local measurement outcomes. In particular,…

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We explore connections between homotopy type theory and information theory through homotopy cardinality. We define probability types and random variable types, prove that homotopy cardinality respects dependent sums under truncation and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Andrés Ortiz-Muñoz

We study an information-theoretic measure of uncertainty for quantum systems. It is the Shannon information $I$ of the phase space probability distribution $\la z | \rho | z \ra $, where $|z \ra $ are coherent states, and $\rho$ is the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Arlen Anderson , Jonathan J. Halliwell

We prove two new fundamental uncertainty relations with quantum memory for the Wehrl entropy. The first relation applies to the bipartite memory scenario. It determines the minimum conditional Wehrl entropy among all the quantum states with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-02 Giacomo De Palma

The entanglement in a quantum system that possess an internal symmetry, characterized by the Sz-magnetization or U(1)-charge, is distributed among different sectors. The aim of this letter is to gain a deeper understanding of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-25 J. C. Xavier , F. C. Alcaraz , G. Sierra

We study the coherent dynamics of two interacting particles in a quantum double-well and show that the Shannon entropy can be a definitive signature of entanglement as an alternative to concur- rence, a connection not reported previously.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-13 Sandeep Mishra , Anjana Bagga , Anu Venugopalan

Shannon Entropy is the preeminent tool for measuring the level of uncertainty (and conversely, information content) in a random variable. In the field of communications, entropy can be used to express the information content of given…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Bill Kay , Audun Myers , Thad Boydston , Emily Ellwein , Cameron Mackenzie , Iliana Alvarez , Erik Lentz

General probabilistic theories are designed to provide operationally the most general probabilistic models including both classical and quantum theories. In this letter, we introduce a systematic method to construct a series of entropies,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 Gen Kimura , Junji Ishiguro , Makoto Fukui

We consider entropic uncertainty relations for outcomes of the measurements of a quantum state in 3 or more mutually unbiased bases (MUBs), chosen from the standard construction of MUBs in prime dimension. We show that, for any choice of 3…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-19 Andris Ambainis

We highlight the advantages of using simultaneously the Shannon and Fisher information measures in providing a useful form of the uncertainty relation for the position-momentum case. It does not require any Fourier transformation. The…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 Kamal Bhattacharyya , Karabi Halder

This paper studies the uncertainty principle for spherical $h$-harmonic expansions on the unit sphere of $\mathbb{R}^d$ associated with a weight function invariant under a general finite reflection group, which is in full analogy with the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-11-18 Han Feng

We study how the Shannon entropy of sequences produced by an information source converges to the source's entropy rate. We synthesize several phenomenological approaches to applying information theoretic measures of randomness and memory to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 James P. Crutchfield , David P. Feldman

Our knowledge of quantum mechanics can satisfactorily describe simple, microscopic systems, but is yet to explain the macroscopic everyday phenomena we observe. Here we aim to shed some light on the quantum-to-classical transition as seen…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-14 Isadora Veeren , Fernando de Melo

Uncertainty relations based on quantum coherence is an important problem in quantum information science. We discuss uncertainty relations for averaged unified ($\alpha$,$\beta$)-relative entropy of coherence under mutually unbiased…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Baolong Cheng , Zhaoqi Wu

Quantum entropy is an important measure for describing the uncertainty of a quantum state, more uncertainty in subsystems implies stronger quantum entanglement between subsystems. Our goal in this work is to quantify bipartite entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-18 Xue Yang , Yan-Han Yang , Li-Ming Zhao , Ming-Xing Luo

Shannon entropy, a cornerstone of information theory, statistical physics and inference methods, is uniquely identified by the Shannon-Khinchin or Shore-Johnson axioms. Generalizations of Shannon entropy, motivated by the study of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-04-20 Andrea Somazzi , Diego Garlaschelli

Even if a probability distribution is properly normalizable, its associated Shannon (or von Neumann) entropy can easily be infinite. We carefully analyze conditions under which this phenomenon can occur. Roughly speaking, this happens when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-04-04 Valentina Baccetti , Matt Visser

Uncertainty relation for photons that overcomes the difficulties caused by the nonexistence of the photon position operator is derived in quantum electrodynamics. The photon energy density plays the role of the probability density in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-05 Iwo Bialynicki-Birula , Zofia Bialynicka-Birula

By revisiting the mathematical foundation of the uncertainty relation, skew information-based uncertainty sequences are developed for any two quantum channels. A reinforced version of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality is adopted to improve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-11 Xiaoli Hu , Naihong Hu , Bing Yu , Naihuan Jing
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