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In this work, we consider a recently proposed entropy S (called varentropy) defined by a variational relationship dI=beta*(d<x>-<dx>) as a measure of uncertainty of random variable x. By definition, varentropy underlies a generalized…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-28 C. J. Ou , A. El Kaabouchi , L. Nivanen , F. Tsobnang , A. Le Méhauté , Qiuping A. Wang

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

Quantum relative entropy optimization refers to a class of convex problems in which a linear functional is minimized over an affine section of the epigraph of the quantum relative entropy function. Recently, the self-concordance of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Kerry He , James Saunderson , Hamza Fawzi

Entropy-like functionals on operator algebras have been studied since the pioneering work of von Neumann, Umegaki, Lindblad, and Lieb. The most well-known are the von Neumann entropy $trace (\rho\log \rho)$ and a generalization of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-07-19 Tryphon T. Georgiou

We study the relative entanglement entropies of one interval between excited states of a 1+1 dimensional conformal field theory (CFT). To compute the relative entropy $S(\rho_1 \| \rho_0)$ between two given reduced density matrices $\rho_1$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-14 Paola Ruggiero , Pasquale Calabrese

Computing accessible information for an ensemble of quantum states is a basic problem in quantum information theory. We show that the recently obtained optimality criterion (A.S. Holevo, Lobachevskii J. Math., \textbf{43}:7 (2022),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 A. S. Holevo , A. V. Utkin

Maximum entropy method for analytic continuation is extended by introducing quantum relative entropy. This new method is formulated in terms of matrix-valued functions and therefore invariant under arbitrary unitary transformation of input…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-05 Jae-Hoon Sim , Myung Joon Han

Entropy is a measure of the randomness of a system. Estimating the entropy of a quantum state is a basic problem in quantum information. In this paper, we introduce a time-efficient quantum approach to estimating the von Neumann entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Qisheng Wang , Zhicheng Zhang

Quantifying entanglement for multipartite quantum state is a crucial task in many aspects of quantum information theory. Among all the entanglement measures, relative entropy of entanglement $E_{R}$ is an outstanding quantity due to its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-30 Shi-Yao Hou , Chenfeng Cao , D. L. Zhou , Bei Zeng

We present a technique for entropy optimization to calculate a distribution from its moments. The technique is based upon maximizing a discretized form of the Shannon entropy functional by mapping the problem onto a dual space where an…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Bandyopadhyay , A. K. Bhattacharya , Parthapratim Biswas , D. A. Drabold

A principle of maximum entropy is proposed in the context of viscous incompressible flow in Eulerian coordinates. The relative entropy functional, defined over the space of $L^2$ divergence-free velocity fields, is maximized relative to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-23 Gui-Qiang G. Chen , James Glimm , Hamid Said

Relative entropy between two states in the same Hilbert space is a fundamental statistical measure of the distance between these states. Relative entropy is always positive and increasing with the system size. Interestingly, for two states…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 David D. Blanco , Horacio Casini , Ling-Yan Hung , Robert C. Myers

We study maximum-entropy inference for finite-dimensional quantum states under linear moment constraints. Given expectation values of finitely many observables, the feasible set of states is convex but typically non-unique. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 James Tian

Relative entropy is a powerful measure of the dissimilarity between two statistical field theories in the continuum. In this work, we study the relative entropy between Gaussian scalar field theories in a finite volume with different masses…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-28 Markus Schröfl , Stefan Floerchinger

The data processing inequality states that the quantum relative entropy between two states $\rho$ and $\sigma$ can never increase by applying the same quantum channel $\mathcal{N}$ to both states. This inequality can be strengthened with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-14 Marius Junge , Renato Renner , David Sutter , Mark M. Wilde , Andreas Winter

For an infinite-horizon continuous-time optimal stopping problem under non-exponential discounting, we look for an optimal equilibrium, which generates larger values than any other equilibrium does on the entire state space. When the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Yu-Jui Huang , Zhou Zhou

We consider the problem of making a set of states invariant for a network of controlled systems. We assume that the subsystems, initially uncoupled, must be interconnected through controllers to be designed with a constraint on the data…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-23 Christoph Kawan , Jean-Charles Delvenne

Whether noisy quantum devices without error correction can provide quantum advantage over classical computers is a critical issue of current quantum computation. In this work, the random quantum circuits, which are used as the paradigm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Meng Zhang , Chao Wang , Shaojun Dong , Hao Zhang , Yongjian Han , Lixin He

We give an explicit procedure based on entangled input states for estimating a $SU(d)$ operation $U$ with rate of convergence $1/N^2$ when sending $N$ particles through the device. We prove that this rate is optimal. We also evaluate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-09-12 Jonas Kahn

For quantum systems with high purity, we find all observables that, when continuously monitored, maximize the instantaneous reduction in the von Neumann entropy. This allows us to obtain all locally optimal feedback protocols with strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alireza Shabani , Kurt Jacobs