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We present a novel form of relativistic quantum mechanics and demonstrate how to solve it using a recently derived unitary perturbation theory, within partial wave analysis. The theory is tested on a relativistic problem, with two spinless,…

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A new canonical divergence is put forward for generalizing an information-geometric measure of complexity for both, classical and quantum systems. On the simplex of probability measures it is proved that the new divergence coincides with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-11 Domenico Felice , Stefano Mancini , Nihat Ay

We study the approximation of arbitrary distributions $P$ on $d$-dimensional space by distributions with log-concave density. Approximation means minimizing a Kullback--Leibler-type functional. We show that such an approximation exists if…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-10-17 Lutz Duembgen , Richard Samworth , Dominic Schuhmacher

This paper deals with the quantum optimal discrimination among mixed quantum states enjoying geometrical uniform symmetry with respect to a reference density operator $\rho_0$. It is well-known that the minimal error probability is given by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Antonio Assalini , Gianfranco Cariolaro , Gianfranco Pierobon

Recently, a new definition for quantum $f$-divergences was introduced based on an integral representation. These divergences have shown remarkable properties, for example when investigating contraction coefficients under noisy channels. At…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Salman Beigi , Christoph Hirche , Marco Tomamichel

The sandwiched R\'enyi $\alpha$-divergences of two finite-dimensional quantum states play a distinguished role among the many quantum versions of R\'enyi divergences as the tight quantifiers of the trade-off between the two error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Fumio Hiai , Milán Mosonyi

Pinsker's inequality sets a lower bound on the Umegaki divergence of two quantum states in terms of their trace distance. In this work, we formulate corresponding estimates for a variety of quantum and classical divergences including…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Kläre Wienecke , Gereon Koßmann , René Schwonnek

The trade-offs between error probabilities in quantum hypothesis testing are by now well-understood in the centralized setting, but much less is known for distributed settings. Here, we study a distributed binary hypothesis testing problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Sreejith Sreekumar , Christoph Hirche , Hao-Chung Cheng , Mario Berta

Operator convex functions defined on the positive half-line play a prominent role in the theory of quantum information, where they are used to define quantum $f$-divergences. Such functions admit integral representations in terms of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Oisín Faust , Hamza Fawzi

As a continuation of the paper [20] on standard $f$-divergences, we make a systematic study of maximal $f$-divergences in general von Neumann algebras. For maximal $f$-divergences, apart from their definition based on Haagerup's…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Fumio Hiai

The maximum entropy principle is a powerful tool for solving underdetermined inverse problems. This paper considers the problem of discretizing a continuous distribution, which arises in various applied fields. We obtain the approximating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-05 Ken'ichiro Tanaka , Alexis Akira Toda

Quantum information processing is limited, in practice, to efficiently implementable operations. This motivates the study of quantum divergences that preserve their operational meaning while faithfully capturing these computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Álvaro Yángüez , Thomas A. Hahn , Jan Kochanowski

The purpose of this paper is to introduce techniques of obtaining optimal ways to determine a d-level quantum state or distinguish such states. It entails designing constrained elementary measurements extracted from maximal abelian subsets…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 S. Chaturvedi , Sibasish Ghosh , K. R. Parthasarathy , Ajit Iqbal Singh

We study tree kinds of quantum fidelity. Usual Uhlmann's fidelity, minus of f-divergence when $f(x)=-\sqrt{x}$, and the one introduced by the author via reverse test. All of them are quantum extensions of classical fidelity, where the first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-18 Keiji Matsumoto

An optimal transport problem on finite spaces is a linear program. Recently, a relaxation of the optimal transport problem via strictly convex functions, especially via the Kullback--Leibler divergence, sheds new light on data sciences.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-03 Asuka Takatsu

Given a convex function $f\colon\mathbb{R}^{d}\to\mathbb{R}$, the problem of sampling from a distribution $\propto e^{-f(x)}$ is called log-concave sampling. This task has wide applications in machine learning, physics, statistics, etc. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-11 Andrew M. Childs , Tongyang Li , Jin-Peng Liu , Chunhao Wang , Ruizhe Zhang

We study the Hoeffding regime of composite quantum hypothesis testing, in which each hypothesis is specified by a sequence of sets of quantum states. We establish quantum Hoeffding bounds under a set of structural assumptions, orthogonal to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Masahito Hayashi , Kun Fang

Kullback--Leibler (KL) divergence is a fundamental measure of the dissimilarity between two probability distributions, but it can become unstable in high-dimensional settings due to its sensitivity to mismatches in distributional support.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Yifeng Peng , Dantong Li , Xinyi Li , Zhiding Liang , Yongshan Ding , Ying Wang

A semidefinite program (SDP) is a particular kind of convex optimization problem with applications in operations research, combinatorial optimization, quantum information science, and beyond. In this work, we propose variational quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Dhrumil Patel , Patrick J. Coles , Mark M. Wilde

Quantum generalizations of Renyi's entropies are a useful tool to describe a variety of operational tasks in quantum information processing. Two families of such generalizations turn out to be particularly useful: the Petz quantum Renyi…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 Raban Iten , Joseph M. Renes , David Sutter