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Shannon information entropy is a natural measure of probability (de)localization and thus (un)predictability in various procedures of data analysis for model systems. We pay particular attention to links between the Shannon entropy and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Piotr Garbaczewski

The fundamentals of the Maximum Entropy principle as a rule for assigning and updating probabilities are revisited. The Shannon-Jaynes relative entropy is vindicated as the optimal criterion for use with an updating rule. A constructive…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-13 Vesselin I. Dimitrov

Shannon's metric of "Entropy" of information is a foundational concept of information theory. This article is a primer for novices that presents an intuitive way of understanding, remembering, and/or reconstructing Shannon's Entropy metric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-09 Sriram Vajapeyam

We prove that the average smooth Renyi entropy rate will approach the entropy rate of a stationary, ergodic information source, which is equal to the Shannon entropy rate for a classical information source and the von Neumann entropy rate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-13 Berry Schoenmakers , Jilles Tjoelker , Pim Tuyls , Evgeny Verbitskiy

The Renyi entropy plays an essential role in quantum information theory. We study the continuity estimation of the Renyi entropy. An inequality relating the Renyi entropy difference of two quantum states to their trace norm distance is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Zhihua Chen , Zhihao Ma , Ismail Nikoufar , Shaoming Fei

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

The Shannon-Khinchin axioms for the ordinary information entropy are generalized in a natural way to the nonextensive systems based on the concept of nonextensive conditional entropy, and a complete proof of the uniqueness theorem for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sumiyoshi Abe

In this Thesis, several results in quantum information theory are collected, most of which use entropy as the main mathematical tool. *While a direct generalization of the Shannon entropy to density matrices, the von Neumann entropy behaves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-25 Christian Majenz

Quantum information-theoretic approach has been identified as a way to understand the foundations of quantum mechanics as early as 1950 due to Shannon. However there hasn't been enough advancement or rigorous development of the subject. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Shubhayan Sarkar

In quantum Shannon theory, various kinds of quantum entropies are used to characterize the capacities of noisy physical systems. Among them, min-entropy and its smooth version attract wide interest especially in the field of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Rong Wang , H. F. Chau

In this letter we show that the Shore--Johnson axioms for Maximum Entropy Principle in statistical estimation theory account for a considerably wider class of entropic functional than previously thought. Apart from a formal side of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-03 Petr Jizba , Jan Korbel

We describe an efficient theoretical criterion, suitable for indistinguishable particles to quantify the quantum correlations of any pure two-fermion state, based on the Slater rank concept. It represents the natural generalization of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fabrizio Buscemi , Paolo Bordone , Andrea Bertoni

When analyzing the statistical and topological characteristics of complex networks, an effective and convenient way is to compute the centralities for recognizing influential and significant nodes or structures, yet most of them are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Xiangnan Feng , Wei Wei , Jiannan Wang , Ying Shi , Zhiming Zheng

The so-called {\em leakage-chain rule} is a very important tool used in many security proofs. It gives an upper bound on the entropy loss of a random variable $X$ in case the adversary who having already learned some random variables…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-26 Maciej Skorski

Entanglement in the ground state of the XY model on the infinite chain can be measured by the von Neumann entropy of a block of neighboring spins. We study a double scaling limit: the size of the block is much larger then 1 but much smaller…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-10-04 F. Franchini , A. R. Its , B. -Q. Jin , V. E. Korepin

In the analysis of any type of system, granting maximum information extraction from its data is non-trivial. Confidence in successful information extraction typically builds on prior knowledge of the studied system or on the user's…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-01-01 Matteo Becchi , Giovanni Maria Pavan

In this article, we introduce the Sharma-Mittal entropy of a graph, which is a generalization of the existing idea of the von-Neumann entropy. The well-known R{\'e}nyi, Thallis, and von-Neumann entropies can be expressed as limiting cases…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Souma Mazumdar , Amrik Singh , Supriyo Dutta , Sandeep Kumar Yadav , Partha Guha

It is well-known that von Neumann entropy is nonmonotonic unlike Shannon entropy (which is monotonically nondecreasing). Consequently, it is difficult to relate the entropies of the subsystems of a given quantum state. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-07 Pradeep Sarvepalli

Entropic measures provide analytic tools to help us understand correlation in quantum systems. In our previous work, we calculated linear entropy and von Neumann entropy as entanglement measures for the ground state and lower lying excited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-21 Chien-Hao Lin , Yew Kam Ho

We present a problem relating measurements and information theory in spin foam models. In the three dimensional case of quantum gravity we can compute probabilities of spin network graphs and study the behaviour of the Shannon entropy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 J. Manuel Garcia-Islas