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Information plays an important role in our understanding of the physical world. We hence propose an entropic measure of information for any physical theory that admits systems, states and measurements. In the quantum and classical world,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-04 Anthony J. Short , Stephanie Wehner

It is well known that a Shannon based definition of information entropy leads in the classical case to the Boltzmann entropy. It is tempting to regard the Von Neumann entropy as the corresponding quantum mechanical definition. But the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexander Stotland , Andrei A. Pomeransky , Eitan Bachmat , Doron Cohen

One-shot information theory entertains a plethora of entropic quantities, such as the smooth max-divergence, hypothesis testing divergence and information spectrum divergence, that characterize various operational tasks and are used to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-24 Anurag Anshu , Mario Berta , Rahul Jain , Marco Tomamichel

Maximum entropy estimation is of broad interest for inferring properties of systems across many different disciplines. In this work, we significantly extend a technique we previously introduced for estimating the maximum entropy of a set of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-01-05 Elliot A. Martin , Jaroslav Hlinka , Alexander Meinke , Filip Děchtěrenko , Jörn Davidsen

The entropy shows an unavoidable tendency of disorder in thermostatistics according to the second thermodynamics law. This provides a minimization entropy principle for quantum thermostatistics with the von Neumann entropy and nonextensive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-09 M. X. Luo , X. Wang

The quantum relative entropy is a fundamental quantity in quantum information science, characterizing the distinguishability between two quantum states. However, this quantity is not additive in general for correlated quantum states,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Kun Fang , Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi

Quantum computation has been growing rapidly in both theory and experiments. In particular, quantum computing devices with a large number of qubits have been developed by IBM, Google, IonQ, and others. The current quantum computing devices…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Rishabh Gupta , Rongxin Xia , Raphael D. Levine , Sabre Kais

Estimating the state of an open quantum system monitored over time requires incorporating information from past measurements (filtering) and, for improved accuracy, also from future measurements (smoothing). While classical smoothing is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Mingxuan Liu , Ge Bai , Valerio Scarani

In this work we derive a number of chain rules for mutual information quantities, suitable for analyzing quantum cryptography with imperfect devices that leak additional information to an adversary. First, we derive a chain rule between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Amir Arqand , Tony Metger , Ernest Y. -Z. Tan

The entropy of a quantum system is a measure of its randomness, and has applications in measuring quantum entanglement. We study the problem of measuring the von Neumann entropy, $S(\rho)$, and R\'enyi entropy, $S_\alpha(\rho)$ of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Jayadev Acharya , Ibrahim Issa , Nirmal V. Shende , Aaron B. Wagner

In this work, we propose a soft covering problem for fully quantum channels using relative entropy as a criterion for operator closeness. We establish covering lemmas by deriving one-shot bounds on the achievable rates in terms of smooth…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Xingyi He , S. Sandeep Pradhan

We study in detail a very natural metric for quantum states. This new proposal has two basic ingredients: entropy and purification. The metric for two mixed states is defined as the square root of the entropy of the average of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-23 P. W. Lamberti , M. Portesi , J. Sparacino

We introduce an information-theoretic framework for smooth structures on topological manifolds, replacing coordinate charts with small-scale entropy data of local probability probes. A concise set of axioms identifies admissible coordinate…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Amandip Sangha

Finding the minimal relative entropy of two quantum states under semidefinite constraints is a pivotal problem located at the mathematical core of various applications in quantum information theory. An efficient method for providing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Gereon Koßmann , René Schwonnek

In this paper we derive a new quantum entropic uncertainty relation, bounding the conditional smooth quantum min entropy based on the result of a measurement using a two outcome POVM and the failure probability of a classical sampling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-26 Walter O. Krawec

In this article, we present quantum algorithms for estimating von Neumann entropy and Renyi entropy, which are crucial physical and information-theoretical properties of a given quantum state $\rho$. Although there have been existing works…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-12 Nhat A. Nghiem , Tzu-Chieh Wei

We construct a complete set of Wannier functions which are localized at both given positions and momenta. This allows us to introduce the quantum phase space, onto which a quantum pure state can be mapped unitarily. Using its probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-10 Xizhi Han , Biao Wu

It has been shown recently that the framework of quantum sampling, as introduced by Bouman and Fehr, can lead to new entropic uncertainty relations highly applicable to finite-key cryptographic analyses. Here we revisit these so-called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-09 Keegan Yao , Walter O. Krawec , Jiadong Zhu

Quantum physics, despite its observables being intrinsically of a probabilistic nature, does not have a quantum entropy assigned to them. We propose a quantum entropy that quantify the randomness of a pure quantum state via a conjugate pair…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Davi Geiger , Zvi M. Kedem

In this work we study the properties of an purification-based entropic metric for measuring the distance between both quantum states and quantum processes. This metric is defined as the square root of the entropy of the average of two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Tristan M. Osan , Pedro W. Lamberti