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Entropic uncertainty relations provide an information-theoretic framework for quantifying the fundamental indeterminacy inherent in quantum mechanics. We propose more stringent quantum-memory-assisted entropic uncertainty relations for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Qing-Hua Zhang , Cong Xu , Jing-Feng Wu , Shao-Ming Fei

Two of the most intriguing features of quantum physics are the uncertainty principle and the occurrence of nonlocal correlations. The uncertainty principle states that there exist pairs of incompatible measurements on quantum systems such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-21 Marco Tomamichel , Esther Hänggi

We obtain uncertainty and certainty relations of state-independent form for the three Pauli observables with use of the R\'enyi entropies of order $\alpha\in(0;1]$. It is shown that these entropic bounds are tight in the sense that they are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-03 Alexey E. Rastegin

Uncertainty relations are central to quantum physics. While they were originally formulated in terms of variances, they have later been successfully expressed with entropies following the advent of Shannon information theory. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Anaelle Hertz , Nicolas J. Cerf

Entanglement criteria for an $n$-partite quantum system with continuous variables are formulated in terms of R\'{e}nyi entropies. R\'{e}nyi entropies are widely used as a good information measure due to many nice properties. Derived…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-22 Alexey E. Rastegin

In this paper, we study entropic uncertainty relations on a finite-dimensional Hilbert space and provide several tighter bounds for multi-measurements, with some of them also valid for R\'{e}nyi and Tsallis entropies besides the Shannon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-02 Yunlong Xiao , Naihuan Jing , Shao-Ming Fei , Tao Li , Xianqing Li-Jost , Teng Ma , Zhi-Xi Wang

The uncertainty principle can be expressed in entropic terms, also taking into account the role of entanglement in reducing uncertainty. The information exclusion principle bounds instead the correlations that can exist between the outcomes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-26 Patrick J. Coles , Marco Piani

This paper provides tight bounds on the R\'enyi entropy of a function of a discrete random variable with a finite number of possible values, where the considered function is not one-to-one. To that end, a tight lower bound on the R\'enyi…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Igal Sason

Entropic uncertainty relations are powerful tools, especially in quantum cryptography. They typically bound the amount of uncertainty a third-party adversary may hold on a measurement outcome as a result of the measurement overlap. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-18 Walter O. Krawec

We formulate some properties of a set of several mutually unbiased measurements. These properties are used for deriving entropic uncertainty relations. Applications of mutually unbiased measurements in entanglement detection are also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-07 Alexey E. Rastegin

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

Coherence of a quantum state intrinsically depends on the choice of the reference basis. A natural question to ask is the following: if we use two or more incompatible reference bases, can~there be some trade-off relation between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Uttam Singh , Arun Kumar Pati , Manabendra Nath Bera

We prove a tight uniform continuity bound for Arimoto's version of the conditional $\alpha$-R\'enyi entropy, for the range $\alpha \in [0, 1)$. This definition of the conditional R\'enyi entropy is the most natural one among the multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Michael G. Jabbour , Nilanjana Datta

We derive a new entropic quantum uncertainty relation involving min-entropy. The relation is tight and can be applied in various quantum-cryptographic settings. Protocols for quantum 1-out-of-2 Oblivious Transfer and quantum Bit Commitment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-08-19 Ivan B. Damgaard , Serge Fehr , Renato Renner , Louis Salvail , Christian Schaffner

Incompatible observables can be approximated by compatible observables in joint measurement or measured sequentially, with constrained accuracy as implied by Heisenberg's original formulation of the uncertainty principle. Recently, Busch,…

Complementarity relations between various characterizations of a probability distribution are at the core of information theory. In particular, lower and upper bounds for the entropic function are of great importance. In applied topics, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Alexey E. Rastegin

We analyze entropic uncertainty relations for two orthogonal measurements on a $N$-dimensional Hilbert space, performed in two generic bases. It is assumed that the unitary matrix $U$ relating both bases is distributed according to the Haar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Radosław Adamczak , Rafał Latała , Zbigniew Puchała , Karol Życzkowski

Phase-space versions of quantum mechanics -- from Wigner's original distribution to modern discrete-qudit constructions -- represent some states with negative quasi-probabilities. Conventional Shannon and R\'enyi entropies become…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Adam Brandenburger , Pierfrancesco La Mura

Measurement outcomes of a quantum state can be genuinely random (unpredictable) according to the basic laws of quantum mechanics. The Heisenberg-Robertson uncertainty relation puts constrains on the accuracy of two noncommuting observables.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Xiao Yuan , Ge Bai , Tianyi Peng , Xiongfeng Ma

Given two orthornormal bases A and B, the basic form of the entropic uncertainty principle is stated in terms of the sum of the Shannon entropies of the probabilities of measuring A and B onto a given quantum state. State independent lower…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Paolo Giorda
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