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The R\'enyi entanglement entropy is calculated exactly for mode-partitioned isolated systems such as the two-mode squeezed state and the multi-mode Silbey-Harris polaron ansatz state. Effective thermodynamic descriptions of the correlated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-24 King Karl R. Seroje , Rafael S. dela Rosa , Francis N. C. Paraan

We prove the large deviation principle for several entropy and cross entropy estimators based on return times and waiting times on shift spaces over finite alphabets. We consider shift-invariant probability measures satisfying some…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Noé Cuneo , Renaud Raquépas

The precise one-shot characterisation of operational tasks in classical and quantum information theory relies on different forms of smooth entropic quantities. A particularly important connection is between the hypothesis testing relative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Bartosz Regula , Ludovico Lami , Nilanjana Datta

Entropy and relative or cross entropy measures are two very fundamental concepts in information theory and are also widely used for statistical inference across disciplines. The related optimization problems, in particular the maximization…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-18 Abhik Ghosh , Ayanendranath Basu

Werner states have a host of interesting properties, which often serve to illuminate the unusual properties of quantum information. Starting from these states, one may define a family of quantum channels, known as the Holevo-Werner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-15 Thomas P. W. Cope , Kenneth Goodenough , Stefano Pirandola

Entanglement entropy quantifies the amount of uncertainty of a quantum state. For quantum fields in curved space, entanglement entropy of the quantum field theory degrees of freedom is well-defined for a fixed background geometry. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Xi Dong , Xiao-Liang Qi , Zhou Shangnan , Zhenbin Yang

The weak law of large numbers implies that, under mild assumptions on the source, the Renyi entropy per produced symbol converges (in probability) towards the Shannon entropy rate. This paper quantifies the speed of this convergence for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Maciej Skorski

Data partitioning that maximizes/minimizes the Shannon entropy, or more generally the R\'enyi entropy is a crucial subroutine in data compression, columnar storage, and cardinality estimation algorithms. These partition algorithms can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Aryan Esmailpour , Sanjay Krishnan , Stavros Sintos

The trade-off relation between the rate and the strong converse exponent for probabilistic asymptotic entanglement transformations between pure multipartite states can in principle be characterised in terms of a class of entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-21 Dávid Bugár , Péter Vrana

When deploying artificial agents in real-world environments where they interact with humans, it is crucial that their behavior is aligned with the values, social norms or other requirements of that environment. However, many environments…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Mattijs Baert , Pietro Mazzaglia , Sam Leroux , Pieter Simoens

We introduce a refinement to the convex split lemma by replacing the max mutual information with the collision mutual information, transforming the inequality into an equality. This refinement yields tighter achievability bounds for quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Gilad Gour

This thesis addresses the interplay between asymptotic hypothesis testing and entropy inequalities in quantum information theory. In the first part of the thesis we focus on hypothesis testing. We consider two main settings; one can either…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-14 Christoph Hirche

We revisit generalized entropic formulations of the uncertainty principle for an arbitrary pair of quantum observables in two-dimensional Hilbert space. R\'enyi entropy is used as uncertainty measure associated with the distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-23 Steeve Zozor , Gustavo Martín Bosyk , Mariela Portesi

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

It is commonly believed that area laws for entanglement entropies imply that a quantum many-body state can be faithfully represented by efficient tensor network states - a conjecture frequently stated in the context of numerical simulations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-08 Yimin Ge , Jens Eisert

The quantum Renyi relative entropies play a prominent role in quantum information theory, finding applications in characterizing error exponents and strong converse exponents for quantum hypothesis testing and quantum communication theory.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-26 Kaushik P. Seshadreesan , Ludovico Lami , Mark M. Wilde

The R\'enyi information measures are characterized in terms of their Shannon counterparts, and properties of the former are recovered from first principle via the associated properties of the latter. Motivated by this characterization, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-14 Ofer Shayevitz

Entropy is a famous and well established concept in physics and engineering that can be used for explanation of basic fundamentals as well it finds applications in several areas, from quantum physics to astronomy, from network communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-03 R. V. Ramos

We consider a bipartite quantum conductor and discuss the joint probability distribution of particle number in a subsystem and the self-information associated with the reduced density matrix of the subsystem. By extending the multi-contour…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-16 Yasuhiro Utsumi

We investigate bounds in the transmission of classical information through quantum systems. Our focus lies in the generalized Holevo theorem, which provides a single-letter Holevo-like inequality from arbitrary quantum distance measures.…