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The measured relative entropies of quantum states and channels find operational significance in quantum information theory as achievable error rates in hypothesis testing tasks. They are of interest in the near term, as they correspond to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Zixin Huang , Mark M. Wilde

We prove a variety of new and refined uniform continuity bounds for entropies of both classical random variables on an infinite state space and of quantum states of infinite-dimensional systems. We obtain the first tight continuity estimate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Simon Becker , Nilanjana Datta , Michael G. Jabbour

We show that a recent definition of relative R\'enyi entropy is monotone under completely positive, trace preserving maps. This proves a recent conjecture of M\"uller-Lennert et al.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Rupert L. Frank , Elliott H. Lieb

{\em Quantum Fourier analysis} is a new subject that combines an algebraic Fourier transform (pictorial in the case of subfactor theory) with analytic estimates. This provides interesting tools to investigate phenomena such as quantum…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Arthur Jaffe , Chunlan Jiang , Zhengwei Liu , Yunxiang Ren , Jinsong Wu

This paper studies the complexity of estimating Renyi divergences of discrete distributions: $p$ observed from samples and the baseline distribution $q$ known \emph{a priori}. Extending the results of Acharya et al. (SODA'15) on estimating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Maciej Skorski

We show finite-size bounds on the deviation of the optimal type II error from its asymptotic value in the quantum hypothesis testing problem of Stein's lemma with composite null-hypothesis. The proof is based on some simple properties of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-07 Milán Mosonyi

The relative entropy between quantum states quantifies their distinguishability. The estimation of certain relative entropies has been investigated in the literature, e.g., the von Neumann relative entropy and sandwiched R\'enyi relative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Jinge Bao , Minbo Gao , Qisheng Wang

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

Given a convex function $\varphi$ and two hermitian matrices $A$ and $B$, Lewin and Sabin study in [M. Lewin, J. Sabin, {\it A Family of Monotone Quantum Relative Entropies}, Lett. Math. Phys. \textbf{104} (2014), 691-705.] the relative…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 Andreas Deuchert , Christian Hainzl , Robert Seiringer

We give systematic ways of defining monotone quantum relative entropies and (multi-variate) quantum R\'enyi divergences starting from a set of monotone quantum relative entropies. Despite its central importance in information theory, only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Milán Mosonyi , Gergely Bunth , Péter Vrana

Bounds on information combining are a fundamental tool in coding theory, in particular when analyzing polar codes and belief propagation. They usually bound the evolution of random variables with respect to their Shannon entropy. In recent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Christoph Hirche , Xinyue Guan , Marco Tomamichel

We study an extension of the sandwiched R\'enyi relative entropies for normal positive functionals on a von Neumann algebra, for parameter values $\alpha\in [1/2,1)$. This work is intended as a continuation of [A. Jen\v{c}ov\'a, Ann. Henri…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-08 Anna Jenčová

Finding the minimal relative entropy of two quantum states under semidefinite constraints is a pivotal problem located at the mathematical core of various applications in quantum information theory. An efficient method for providing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Gereon Koßmann , René Schwonnek

The hypothesis testing problem of two quantum states is treated. We show a new inequality between the error of the first kind and the second kind, which complements the result of Hiai and Petz to establish the quantum version of Stein's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 Tomohiro Ogawa , Hiroshi Nagaoka

A lemma stated by Ke Li in [arXiv:1208.1400] has been used in e.g. [arXiv:1510.04682,arXiv:1706.04590,arXiv:1612.01464,arXiv:1308.6503,arXiv:1602.08898] for various tasks in quantum hypothesis testing, data compression with quantum side…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-10 Yan Pautrat , Simeng Wang

This thesis synthesizes probability and entropic inference with Quantum Mechanics (QM) and quantum measurement [1-6]. It is shown that the standard and quantum relative entropies are tools designed for the purpose of updating probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Kevin Vanslette

A comparative study of one-dimensional quantum structures which allow analytic expressions for the position and momentum R\'{e}nyi $R(\alpha)$ and Tsallis $T(\alpha)$ entropies, focuses on extracting the most characteristic physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-15 O. Olendski

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

In this paper, we give a new method for proving the Lesche stability of several functionals(Incomplete entropy, Tsallis entropy, \kappa - entropy, Quantum-Group entropy). We prove also that the Incomplete q - expectation value and Renyi…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-10-22 A. El Kaabouchi , A. Le Mehaute , L. Nivanen , C. J. Ou , A. Q. Wang

We consider a two-parameter family of R\'enyi relative entropies $D_{\alpha,z}(\rho||\sigma)$ that are quantum generalisations of the classical R\'enyi divergence $D_{\alpha}(p||q)$. This family includes many known relative entropies (or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-23 Koenraad M. R. Audenaert , Nilanjana Datta