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By using the Renyi entropy, and following the same scheme that in the Fisher-Renyi entropy product case, a generalized statistical complexity is defined. Several properties of it, including inequalities and lower and upper bounds are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-01-14 E. Romera , R. Lopez-Ruiz , J. Sanudo , A. Nagy

We exhibit infinitely many new, constrained inequalities for the von Neumann entropy, and show that they are independent of each other and the known inequalities obeyed by the von Neumann entropy (basically strong subadditivity). The new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-30 Josh Cadney , Noah Linden , Andreas Winter

We conclude a sequence of work by giving near-optimal sketching and streaming algorithms for estimating Shannon entropy in the most general streaming model, with arbitrary insertions and deletions. This improves on prior results that obtain…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Nicholas J. A. Harvey , Jelani Nelson , Krzysztof Onak

The concept of entropy, firstly introduced in information theory, rapidly became popular in many applied sciences via Shannon's formula to measure the degree of heterogeneity among observations. A rather recent research field aims at…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-03-20 Linda Altieri , Daniela Cocchi , Giulia Roli

The fundamental goal of information theory is to characterize complex operational tasks using efficiently computable information quantities, Shannon's capacity formula being the prime example of this. However, many tasks in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Salman Beigi , Roberto Rubboli , Marco Tomamichel

R\'enyi transfer entropy (RTE) is a generalization of classical transfer entropy that replaces Shannon's entropy with R\'enyi's information measure. This, in turn, introduces a new tunable parameter $\alpha$, which accounts for sensitivity…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-01-06 Zlata Tabachová , Petr Jizba , Hynek Lavička , Milan Paluš

We generalize the topological entanglement entropy to a family of topological Renyi entropies parametrized by a parameter alpha, in an attempt to find new invariants for distinguishing topologically ordered phases. We show that,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-01-05 Steven T. Flammia , Alioscia Hamma , Taylor L. Hughes , Xiao-Gang Wen

We normalize the combinatorial Laplacian of a graph by the degree sum, look at its eigenvalues as a probability distribution and then study its Shannon entropy. Equivalently, we represent a graph with a quantum mechanical state and study…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-04-24 Filippo Passerini , Simone Severini

In this paper the author analyses the weighted Renyi entropy in order to derive several inequalities in weighted case. Furthermore, using the proposed notions $\alpha$-th generalized derivation and ($\alpha$; p)-th weighted Fisher…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh

Thermodynamic entropy, as defined by Clausius, characterizes macroscopic observations of a system based on phenomenological quantities such as temperature and heat. In contrast, information-theoretic entropy, introduced by Shannon, is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Mirjam Weilenmann , Lea Krämer , Philippe Faist , Renato Renner

We calculate in detail the Renyi entanglement entropies of cTPQ states as a function of subsystem volume, filling the details of our prior work [Nature Communications 9, 1635 (2018)], where the formulas were first presented. Working in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-30 Hiroyuki Fujita , Yuya O. Nakagawa , Sho Sugiura , Masataka Watanabe

Entropy is a fundamental property of both classical and quantum systems, spanning myriad theoretical and practical applications in physics and computer science. We study the problem of obtaining estimates to within a multiplicative factor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Tom Gur , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Sathyawageeswar Subramanian

Uncertainty relations have become the trademark of quantum theory since they were formulated by Bohr and Heisenberg. This review covers various generalizations and extensions of the uncertainty relations in quantum theory that involve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-12 Iwo Bialynicki-Birula , Lukasz Rudnicki

Shannon's entropy power inequality (EPI) can be viewed as a statement of concavity of an entropic function of a continuous random variable under a scaled addition rule: $$f(\sqrt{a}\,X + \sqrt{1-a}\,Y) \ge a f(X) + (1-a) f(Y) \quad \forall…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-06 Koenraad Audenaert , Nilanjana Datta , Maris Ozols

Most quantum divergences derive their structure from classical f-divergences or Renyi-type constructions, a dependence that obscures several quantum geometric effects. We introduce a quantum relative-alpha-entropy that extends Umegaki's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Sayantan Roy , Atin Gayen , Aditi Kar Gangopadhyay , Sugata Gangopadhyay

Bipartite entanglement entropies, calculated from the reduced density matrix of a subsystem, provide a description of the resources available within a system for performing quantum information processing. However, these quantities are not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-06 Robert N. C. Pfeifer

Von Neumann entropy (VNE) is a fundamental quantity in quantum information theory and has recently been adopted in machine learning as a spectral measure of diversity for kernel matrices and kernel covariance operators. While maximizing VNE…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Youqi Wu , Farzan Farnia

Entropy is a famous and well established concept in physics and engineering that can be used for explanation of basic fundamentals as well it finds applications in several areas, from quantum physics to astronomy, from network communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-03 R. V. Ramos

The states of the qubit, the basic unit of quantum information, are $2 \times 2$ positive semi-definite Hermitian matrices with trace 1. We contribute to the program to axiomatize quantum mechanics by characterizing these states in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Adam Brandenburger , Pierfrancesco La Mura , Stuart Zoble

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