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Quantum information quantities, such as mutual information and entropies, are essential for characterizing quantum systems and protocols in quantum information science. In this contribution, we identify types of information measures based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Christopher Popp , Tobias C. Sutter , Beatrix C. Hiesmayr

A theory of thermodynamics has been recently formulated and derived on the basis of R\'enyi entropy and its relative versions. In this framework, we define the concepts of partition function, internal energy and free energy, and fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-05 Natália Bebiano , João da Providência , João Pinheiro da Providência

We address an information-theoretic approach to noise and disturbance in quantum measurements. Properties of corresponding probability distributions are characterized by means of both the R\'{e}nyi and Tsallis entropies. Related…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-03 Alexey E. Rastegin

This dissertation investigates relative entropies, also called generalized divergences, and how they can be used to characterize information-theoretic tasks in quantum information theory. The main goal is to further refine characterizations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-29 Felix Leditzky

General quantum measurements are represented by instruments. In this paper the mathematical formalization is given of the idea that an instrument is a channel which accepts a quantum state as input and produces a probability and an a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alberto Barchielli , Giancarlo Lupieri

We study the relation between the quantum conditional mutual information and the quantum $\alpha$-R\'enyi divergences. Considering the totally antisymmetric state we show that it is not possible to attain a proper generalization of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Paul Erker

The monogamy of quantum entanglement captures the property of limitation in the distribution of entanglement. Various monogamy relations exist for different entanglement measures that are important in quantum information processing. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-29 Xue Yang , Ming-Xing Luo

R\'enyi entropy is a one-parameter generalization of Shannon entropy, which has been used in various fields of physics. Despite its wide applicability, the physical interpretations of the R\'enyi entropy are not widely known. In this paper,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-29 Misaki Ozawa , Nina Javerzat

R\'enyi entropy is an important measure in the context of information theory as a generalization of Shannon entropy. This information measure was often used for uncertainty quantification of dynamical behaviour of stochastic processes. In…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Salah H. Abid , Uday J. Quaez , Javier E. Contreras-Reyescor

Based on the problem of quantum data compression in a lossless way, we present here an operational interpretation for the family of quantum R\'enyi entropies. In order to do this, we appeal to a very general quantum encoding scheme that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-05 G. Bellomo , G. M. Bosyk , F. Holik , S. Zozor

Since their introduction in the early sixties, the R\'enyi entropies have been used in many contexts, ranging from information theory to astrophysics, turbulence phenomena and others. In this note, we enlighten the main connections between…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-01-20 Giuseppe Toscani

Studying the typical entanglement entropy of a bipartite system when averaging over different ensembles of pure quantum states has been instrumental in different areas of physics, ranging from many-body quantum chaos to black hole…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Lucas Hackl , Mario Kieburg , Joel Maldonado

Information entropies provide powerful and flexible way to express restrictions imposed by the uncertainty principle. This approach seems to be very suitable in application to problems of quantum information theory. It is typical that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-15 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

Computing entanglement entropy and its cousins is often challenging even in the simplest continuum and lattice models, partly because such entropies depend nontrivially on all geometric characteristics of the entangling region. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-28 Mohammad F. Maghrebi

Quantum field theory exhibits rich spatial correlation structures even in the vacuum, where entanglement entropy between regions scales with the area of their shared boundary. While this vacuum structure has been extensively studied, far…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-26 Willy A. Izquierdo , David R. Junior , Gastão Krein

We develop a general theoretical framework for measurement protocols employing statistical correlations of randomized measurements. We focus on locally randomized measurements implemented with local random unitaries in quantum lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 Andreas Elben , Benoît Vermersch , Christian F. Roos , Peter Zoller

The quantification of aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty in terms of conditional entropy and mutual information, respectively, has recently become quite common in machine learning. While the properties of these measures, which are rooted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Lisa Wimmer , Yusuf Sale , Paul Hofman , Bern Bischl , Eyke Hüllermeier

The matrix-based R\'enyi's entropy allows us to directly quantify information measures from given data, without explicit estimation of the underlying probability distribution. This intriguing property makes it widely applied in statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Yuxin Dong , Tieliang Gong , Shujian Yu , Hong Chen , Chen Li

The information provided by a classical measurement is unambiguously determined by the mutual information between the output results and the measured quantity. However, quantum mechanically there are at least two notions of information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kurt Jacobs