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We study the Hoeffding regime of composite quantum hypothesis testing, in which each hypothesis is specified by a sequence of sets of quantum states. We establish quantum Hoeffding bounds under a set of structural assumptions, orthogonal to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Masahito Hayashi , Kun Fang

We introduce a new information-theoretic formulation of quantum measurement uncertainty relations, based on the notion of relative entropy between measurement probabilities. In the case of a finite-dimensional system and for any approximate…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 Alberto Barchielli , Matteo Gregoratti , Alessandro Toigo

We introduce a new quantum R\'enyi divergence $D^{\#}_{\alpha}$ for $\alpha \in (1,\infty)$ defined in terms of a convex optimization program. This divergence has several desirable computational and operational properties such as an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi

Smooth Csisz\'ar $f$-divergences can be expressed as integrals over so-called hockey stick divergences. This motivates a natural quantum generalization in terms of quantum Hockey stick divergences, which we explore here. Using this recipe,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Christoph Hirche , Marco Tomamichel

The fundamental goal of information theory is to characterize complex operational tasks using efficiently computable information quantities, Shannon's capacity formula being the prime example of this. However, many tasks in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Salman Beigi , Roberto Rubboli , Marco Tomamichel

The Pinsker inequality lower bounds the Kullback--Leibler divergence $D_{\textrm{KL}}$ in terms of total variation and provides a canonical way to convert $D_{\textrm{KL}}$ control into $\lVert \cdot \rVert_1$-control. Motivated by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Guglielmo Beretta , Tommaso Cesari , Roberto Colomboni

Quantum Renyi relative entropies provide a one-parameter family of distances between density matrices, which generalizes the relative entropy and the fidelity. We study these measures for renormalization group flows in quantum field theory.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-17 Horacio Casini , Raimel Medina , Ignacio Salazar , Gonzalo Torroba

Uhlmann's theorem is a cornerstone of quantum information theory, stating that for any quantum state $\rho_{AB}$ and any state $\sigma_A$, there exists an extension $\sigma_{AB}$ of $\sigma_A$ such that the fidelity between $\rho_{AB}$ and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Kun Fang , Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi

The doubly minimized Petz Renyi mutual information of order $\alpha$ is defined as the minimization of the Petz divergence of order $\alpha$ of a fixed bipartite quantum state relative to any product state. The doubly minimized sandwiched…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Laura Burri

We obtain formulas for Petz-R\'enyi and Umegaki relative entropy from the idea of distribution of a positive selfadjoint operator. Classical results on R\'enyi and Kullback-Leibler divergences are applied to obtain new results and new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 George Androulakis , Tiju Cherian John

The concept of classical $f$-divergences gives a unified framework to construct and study measures of dissimilarity of probability distributions; special cases include the relative entropy and the R\'enyi divergences. Various quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-08 Fumio Hiai , Milan Mosonyi

We derive a new bound on the effectiveness of the Petz map as a universal recovery channel in approximate quantum error correction using the second sandwiched R\'{e}nyi relative entropy $\tilde{D}_{2}$. For large Hilbert spaces, our bound…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Sam Cree , Jonathan Sorce

The quantum relative entropy is a fundamental quantity in quantum information science, characterizing the distinguishability between two quantum states. However, this quantity is not additive in general for correlated quantum states,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Kun Fang , Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi

We show that the new quantum extension of Renyi's \alpha-relative entropies, introduced recently by Muller-Lennert, Dupuis, Szehr, Fehr and Tomamichel, J. Math. Phys. 54, 122203, (2013), and Wilde, Winter, Yang, Commun. Math. Phys. 331,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-17 Milan Mosonyi , Tomohiro Ogawa

Variational techniques have been recently developed to find tighter bounds on the von Neumann entropy in a completely device-independent (DI) setting. This, in turn, has led to significantly improved key rates of DI protocols, in both the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-23 Thomas A. Hahn , Ernest Y. -Z. Tan , Peter Brown

The $\alpha$-$z$ R\'enyi relative entropies are a two-parameter family of R\'enyi relative entropies that are quantum generalizations of the classical $\alpha$-R\'enyi relative entropies. In \cite{zhang20CFL} we decided the full range of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-11-02 Haonan Zhang

The aim of the present paper is to give axiomatic characterization of quantum relative entropy utilizing resource conversion scenario. We consider two sets of axioms: non-asymptotic and asymptotic. In the former setting, we prove that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-07 Keiji Matsumoto

Our capacity to process information depends on the computational power at our disposal. Information theory captures our ability to distinguish states or communicate messages when it is unconstrained with unrivaled beauty and elegance. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Johannes Jakob Meyer , Asad Raza , Jacopo Rizzo , Lorenzo Leone , Sofiene Jerbi , Jens Eisert

In this paper, we discuss the quantum data processing inequality and its refinements that are physically meaningful in the context of approximate recoverability. An important conjecture regarding this due to Seshadreesan et. al. in J. Phys.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Saptak Bhattacharya

Quantum information processing is limited, in practice, to efficiently implementable operations. This motivates the study of quantum divergences that preserve their operational meaning while faithfully capturing these computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Álvaro Yángüez , Thomas A. Hahn , Jan Kochanowski