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We revisit the well-studied problem of estimating the Shannon entropy of a probability distribution, now given access to a probability-revealing conditional sampling oracle. In this model, the oracle takes as input the representation of a…

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We study the increase in per-sample differential entropy rate of random sequences and processes after being passed through a non minimum-phase (NMP) discrete-time, linear time-invariant (LTI) filter G. For such filters and random processes,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-14 Milan S. Derpich , Matías Müller , Jan Østergaard

We show that the essential properties of entropy (monotonicity, additivity and subadditivity) are consequences of entropy being a monoidal natural transformation from the under category functor $-/\mathsf{LProb}_{\rho}$ (where…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Cheuk Ting Li

The single qudit state tomograms are shown to have the no signaling property. The known and new entropic and information inequalities for Shannon, von Neumann and q-entropies of the composite and noncomposite systems characterizing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 V. N. Chernega , O. V. Man'ko

Relative entropy is the standard measure of distinguishability in classical and quantum information theory. In the classical case, its loss under channels admits an exact chain rule, while in the quantum case only asymptotic, regularized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Giulio Gasbarri , Matt Hoogsteder-Riera

Wigner-positive quantum states have the peculiarity to admit a Wigner function that is a genuine probability distribution over phase space. The Shannon differential entropy of the Wigner function of such states -- called Wigner entropy for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Zacharie Van Herstraeten , Nicolas J. Cerf

We consider properties of quantum channels with use of unified entropies. Extremal unravelings of quantum channel with respect to these entropies are examined. The concept of map entropy is extended in terms of the unified entropies. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Alexey E. Rastegin

An existing conjecture states that the Shannon mutual information contained in the ground state wavefunction of conformally invariant quantum chains, on periodic lattices, has a leading finite-size scaling behavior that, similarly as the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-27 F. C. Alcaraz

Entropy and differential entropy are important quantities in information theory. A tractable extension to singular random variables-which are neither discrete nor continuous-has not been available so far. Here, we present such an extension…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Günther Koliander , Georg Pichler , Erwin Riegler , Franz Hlawatsch

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

Aim of this short note is to study Shannon's entropy power along entropic interpolations, thus generalizing Costa's concavity theorem. We shall provide two proofs of independent interest: the former by $\Gamma$-calculus, hence applicable to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Luca Tamanini

In this paper, I expand Shannon's definition of entropy into a new form of entropy that allows integration of information from different random events. Shannon's notion of entropy is a special case of my more general definition of entropy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2008-11-04 Stefan Jaeger

We investigate the additivity properties for both bipartite and multipartite systems by using entropic uncertainty relations (EUR) defined in terms of the joint Shannon entropy of probabilities of local measurement outcomes. In particular,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Alberto Riccardi , Giovanni Chesi , Chiara Macchiavello , Lorenzo Maccone

Relations between Shannon entropy and Renyi entropies of integer order are discussed. For any N-point discrete probability distribution for which the Renyi entropies of order two and three are known, we provide an lower and an upper bound…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Karol Zyczkowski

Security proofs in quantum cryptography rely on conditional entropies. In a many-round protocol, their estimation is a challenging task; one must account for the most general attacks by an eavesdropper, including those that are not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Lewis Wooltorton , Peter Brown , Omar Fawzi

Given an independent and identically distributed source $X = \{X_i \}_{i=1}^{\infty}$ with finite Shannon entropy or differential entropy (as the case may be) $H(X)$, the non-asymptotic equipartition property (NEP) with respect to $H(X)$ is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-18 En-Hui Yang , Jin Meng

Even if a probability distribution is properly normalizable, its associated Shannon (or von Neumann) entropy can easily be infinite. We carefully analyze conditions under which this phenomenon can occur. Roughly speaking, this happens when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-04-04 Valentina Baccetti , Matt Visser

Environmental interactions are ubiquitous in any real-world application of a quantum information processing protocol. Such interactions result in depletion of quantum resources. Two important figure of merits in the context of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Tapaswini Patro , Kaushiki Mukherjee , Nirman Ganguly

Dual to the usual noisy channel coding problem, where a noisy (classical or quantum) channel is used to simulate a noiseless one, reverse Shannon theorems concern the use of noiseless channels to simulate noisy ones, and more generally the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-22 Charles H. Bennett , Igor Devetak , Aram W. Harrow , Peter W. Shor , Andreas Winter

For a quantum state undergoing unitary Schr\"odinger time evolution, the von Neumann entropy is constant. Yet the second law of thermodynamics, and our experience, show that entropy increases with time. Ingarden introduced the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Craig S. Lent