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In this thesis we start by providing some detail regarding how we arrived at our present understanding of probabilities and how we manipulate them - the product and addition rules by Cox. We also discuss the modern view of entropy and how…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-01-21 Adom Giffin

Commutator-based entropic uncertainty relations in multidimensional position and momentum spaces are derived, twofold generalizing previous entropic uncertainty relations for one-mode states. They provide optimal lower bounds and imply the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-02 Yichen Huang

For the power-law quantum wave packet in configuration space, the variance of the position observable may be divergent. Accordingly, the information-entropic formulation of the uncertainty principle becomes more appropriate than the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Sumiyoshi Abe , S. Martinez , F. Pennini , A. Plastino

An index of uniformity is developed as an alternative to the maximum-entropy principle for selecting continuous, differentiable probability distributions $\mathcal{P}$ subject to constraints $C$. The uniformity index developed in this paper…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-06-02 Michael E. Beyer

The hypothesis that disentanglement spontaneously occurs in quantum systems is motivated by some outstanding issues in the foundations of quantum mechanics. However, for some cases, spontaneous disentanglement enables the violation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Eyal Buks

Quantum reference frames provide a relational description of multipartite quantum systems in which physical states and observables are defined relative to quantum observers. Yet different observers can assign different entropies to the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Anne-Catherine de la Hamette

Entropic uncertainty relations for the position and momentum within the generalized uncertainty principle are examined. Studies of this principle are motivated by the existence of a minimal observable length. Then the position and momentum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-09 Alexey E. Rastegin

In a recent paper, the authors proposed a general methodology for probabilistic learning on manifolds. The method was used to generate numerical samples that are statistically consistent with an existing dataset construed as a realization…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-03-30 C. Soizea , R. Ghanem , C. Safta , X. Huan , Z. P. Vane , J. Oefelein , G. Lacaz , H. N. Najm , Q. Tang , X. Chen

Statistical physics aims to describe properties of macroscale systems in terms of distributions of their microscale agents. Its central tool is the maximization of entropy, a variational principle. We review the history of this principle,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-11 Jonathan Asher Pachter , Ying-Jen Yang , Ken A. Dill

We consider some classes of piecewise expanding maps in finite dimensional spaces having invariant probability measures which are absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure. We derive an entropy formula for such measures and,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-06-05 Jose F. Alves , Antonio Pumarino

The method of Maximum (relative) Entropy (ME) is used to translate the information contained in the known form of the likelihood into a prior distribution for Bayesian inference. The argument is guided by intuition gained from the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-10 Ariel Caticha , Roland Preuss

We study a quantum theory based on two assumptions: In the intrinsic frame of reference of an isolated, macroscopic system, (i) the system has no global motion and is not entangled with any other system, (ii) time evolution of statevectors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Wen-ge Wang

The inference of entangled quantum states by recourse to the maximum entropy principle is considered in connection with the recently pointed out problem of fake inferred entanglement [R. Horodecki, {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. A {\it 59} (1999)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Batle , M. Casas , A. R. Plastino , A. Plastino

The contextuality of quantum mechanics, i.e. the measurement outcome dependence upon previously made measurements, can be shown by the violation of inequalities based on measurements of well chosen observables. An important property of such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-16 A. Laversanne-Finot , A. Ketterer , M. R. Barros , S. P. Walborn , T. Coudreau , A. Keller , P. Milman

It has been shown that one can accommodate data (Bayes) and constraints (MaxEnt) in one method, the method of Maximum (relative) Entropy (ME) (Giffin 2007). In this paper we show a complex agent based example of inference with two different…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-09-08 Adom Giffin

It is well known that loss of information about a system, for some observer, leads to an increase in entropy as perceived by this observer. We use this to propose an alternative approach to decoherence in quantum field theory in which the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-18 Jurjen F. Koksma , Tomislav Prokopec , Michael G. Schmidt

We study the maximal amount of energy that can be extracted from a finite quantum system by means of projective measurements. For this quantity we coin the expression "metrotropy" $\mathcal{M}$, in analogy with "ergotropy" $\mathcal{W}$,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-10 Andrea Solfanelli , Lorenzo Buffoni , Alessandro Cuccoli , Michele Campisi

We develop a new semantics for defeasible inference based on extended probability measures allowed to take infinitesimal values, on the interpretation of defaults as generalized conditional probability constraints and on a preferred-model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-21 Emil Weydert

The uncertainty principle, which bounds the uncertainties involved in obtaining precise outcomes for two complementary variables defining a quantum particle, is a crucial aspect in quantum mechanics. Recently, the uncertainty principle in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-24 Chuan-Feng Li , Jin-Shi Xu , Xiao-Ye Xu , Ke Li , Guang-Can Guo

Problem of classification of all the set of entangled states is considered. Invariance of entangled states relative to transformations from a group of symmetry of qubit space leads to classification of all states of the system through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Constantin V. Usenko