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Information-theoretic quantities like entropy and mutual information have found numerous uses in machine learning. It is well known that there is a strong connection between these entropic quantities and submodularity since entropy over a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Rishabh Iyer , Ninad Khargonkar , Jeff Bilmes , Himanshu Asnani

We carry out a systematic study of entanglement entropy in nonrelativistic conformal field theories via holographic techniques. After a discussion of recent results concerning Galilean conformal field theories, we deduce a novel expression…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-12 Seyed Morteza Hosseini , Alvaro Veliz-Osorio

We characterize mutual information as the unique map on ordered pairs of random variables satisfying a set of axioms similar to those of Faddeev's characterization of the Shannon entropy. There is a new axiom in our characterization however…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-30 James Fullwood

Regularized quantum information metrics are calculated for the scattering process $e^-e^+ \rightarrow \gamma,Z\rightarrow \mu^-\mu^+$ that has a witness photon entangled with the initial electron-positron state. Unitarity implies the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-06 Shanmuka Shivashankara , Grace Gogliettino

A full-rank lattice in the Euclidean space is a discrete set formed by all integer linear combinations of a basis. Given a probability distribution on $\mathbb{R}^n$, two operations can be induced by considering the quotient of the space by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Fábio C. C. Meneghetti , Henrique K. Miyamoto , Sueli I. R. Costa

Lieb and Ruskai's strong subadditivity theorem, which shows that the conditional mutual information must be nonnegative, is fundamental in quantum theory. It has numerous applications, such as in quantum error correction. When the mutual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Zhou Gang

It is well known that quantum mechanics admits a geometric formulation on the complex projective space as a Kahler manifold. In this paper we consider the notion of mutual information among continuous random variables in relation to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-04-07 Davide Pastorello

The mutual information characterizes correlations between spatially separated regions of a system. Yet, in experiments we often measure dynamical correlations, which involve probing operators that are also separated in time. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Paolo Glorioso , Xiao-Liang Qi , Zhenbin Yang

Entanglement entropy plays a variety of roles in quantum field theory, including the connections between quantum states and gravitation through the holographic principle. This article provides a review of entanglement entropy from a mixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-30 Tatsuma Nishioka

We study the holographic entanglement entropy and mutual information for Lorentz boosted subsystems. In holographic CFTs at zero and finite temperature, we find that the mutual information gets divergent in a universal way when the end…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-15 Yuya Kusuki , Tadashi Takayanagi , Koji Umemoto

Quantum information measures such as the entropy and the mutual information find applications in physics, e.g., as correlation measures. Generalizing such measures based on the R\'enyi entropies is expected to enhance their scope in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-10 Mario Berta , Kaushik P. Seshadreesan , Mark M. Wilde

We study generalized free fields (GFF) from the point of view of information measures. We first review conformal GFF, their holographic representation, and the ambiguities in the assignation of algebras to regions that arise in these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Valentin Benedetti , Horacio Casini , Pedro J. Martinez

Information-theoretic quantities, such as entropy, are used to quantify the amount of information a given variable provides. Entropies can be used together to compute the mutual information, which quantifies the amount of information two…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2014-12-22 Kevin H. Knuth , Deniz Gençağa , William B. Rossow

Entanglement and information are powerful lenses to probe phases transitions in many-body systems. Motivated by recent cold atom experiments, which are now able to measure the corresponding information-theoretic quantities, we study the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-20 C. Walsh , P. Sémon , D. Poulin , G. Sordi , A. -M. S. Tremblay

We study the entanglement entropy and the mutual information in coupled harmonic systems at finite temperature. Interestingly, we find that the mutual information does not vanish at infinite temperature, but it rather reaches a specific…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-20 Dimitrios Katsinis , Georgios Pastras

We use mutual information as a measure of the entanglement between 'physical' and thermo-field double degrees of freedom in field theories at finite temperature. We compute this "thermo-mutual information" in simple toy models: a quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-22 Ian A. Morrison , Matthew M. Roberts

In this paper we have studied the effect of deformation and temperature on holographic entanglement entropy and mutual information between two subsystems in a deformed field theory at finite temperature. The $T{\overline{T}}$ deformation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-25 Hajar Ebrahim , Monireh Ahmadpour

We study different aspects of quantum field theory at finite density using methods from quantum information theory. For simplicity we focus on massive Dirac fermions with nonzero chemical potential, and work in $1+1$ space-time dimensions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-11 Lucas Daguerre , Raimel Medina , Mario Solis , Gonzalo Torroba

The information theoretic quantity known as mutual information finds wide use in classification and community detection analyses to compare two classifications of the same set of objects into groups. In the context of classification…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-29 M. E. J. Newman , George T. Cantwell , Jean-Gabriel Young

The entanglement entropy corresponding to a smooth region in general three-dimensional CFTs contains a constant universal term, $-F \subset S_{\text{EE}}$. For a disk region, $F|_{\rm disk}\equiv F_0$ coincides with the free energy on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-10 Pablo Bueno , Horacio Casini , Oscar Lasso Andino , Javier Moreno