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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

We introduce two variants of the information spectrum relative entropy defined by Tomamichel and Hayashi which have the particular advantage of satisfying the data-processing inequality, i.e. monotonicity under quantum operations. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Nilanjana Datta , Felix Leditzky

Quantum information theory, particularly its entropic formulations, has made remarkable strides in characterizing quantum systems and tasks. However, a critical dimension remains underexplored: computational efficiency. While classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Noam Avidan , Thomas A. Hahn , Joseph M. Renes , Rotem Arnon

We pedagogically present the information theory as originally established, explaining its essential ideas and paying attention to the expression employed to measure the amount of information. Also we discussed relationships between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Wallas S. Nascimento , Marcos M. de Almeida , Frederico V. Prudente

This dissertation investigates relative entropies, also called generalized divergences, and how they can be used to characterize information-theoretic tasks in quantum information theory. The main goal is to further refine characterizations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-29 Felix Leditzky

Resource identification and quantification is an essential element of both classical and quantum information theory. Entanglement is one of these resources, arising when quantum communication and nonlocal operations are expensive to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-20 Sebastian Meznaric

One of the predominant challenges when engineering future quantum information processors is that large quantum systems are notoriously hard to maintain and control accurately. It is therefore of immediate practical relevance to investigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-31 Marco Tomamichel

Quantum mechanics and information theory are among the most important scientific discoveries of the last century. Although these two areas initially developed separately it has emerged that they are in fact intimately related. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Vedral

Information theory has become an increasingly important research field to better understand quantum mechanics. Noteworthy, it covers both foundational and applied perspectives, also offering a common technical language to study a variety of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Diego Paiva Pires , Kavan Modi , Lucas Chibebe Céleri

Quantum information decoupling is a fundamental primitive in quantum information theory, underlying various applications in quantum physics. We prove a novel one-shot decoupling theorem formulated in terms of quantum relative entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Mario Berta , Hao-Chung Cheng , Yongsheng Yao

Quantum information quantities, such as mutual information and entropies, are essential for characterizing quantum systems and protocols in quantum information science. In this contribution, we identify types of information measures based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Christopher Popp , Tobias C. Sutter , Beatrix C. Hiesmayr

Our capacity to process information depends on the computational power at our disposal. Information theory captures our ability to distinguish states or communicate messages when it is unconstrained with unrivaled beauty and elegance. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Johannes Jakob Meyer , Asad Raza , Jacopo Rizzo , Lorenzo Leone , Sofiene Jerbi , Jens Eisert

The aim of this thesis is to advance the theory behind quantum information processing tasks, by deriving fundamental limits on bipartite quantum interactions and dynamics, which corresponds to an underlying Hamiltonian that governs the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-18 Siddhartha Das

Fundamental limits on the controllability of quantum mechanical systems are discussed in the light of quantum information theory. It is shown that the amount of entropy-reduction that can be extracted from a quantum system by feedback…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Shiro Kawabata

First, the relation between black holes and limitations on information of other systems is developed. After reviewing the relation of entropy to information, we derive the entropy bound, review its applications to cosmology and its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jacob D. Bekenstein

A fundamental approach for the characterization and quantification of all kinds of resources is to study the conversion between different resource objects under certain constraints. Here we analyze, from a resource-non-specific standpoint,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-11 Zi-Wen Liu , Kaifeng Bu , Ryuji Takagi

Entropy and other fundamental quantities of information theory are customarily expressed and manipulated as functions of probabilities. Here we study the entropy H and subentropy Q as functions of the elementary symmetric polynomials in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-02 Richard Jozsa , Graeme Mitchison

B. Schumacher and M. Westmoreland have established a quantum analog of a well-known classical information theory result on a role of relative entropy as a measure of non-optimality in (classical) data compression. In this paper, we provide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-08 Alexei Kaltchenko

Some quantum algorithms have "quantum speedups": improved time complexity as compared with the best-known classical algorithms for solving the same tasks. Can we understand what fuels these speedups from an entropic perspective? Information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Jason Pollack , Dylan VanAllen

Quantum information theory is the study of the achievable limits of information processing within quantum mechanics. Many different types of information can be accommodated within quantum mechanics, including classical information, coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Nielsen
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