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We derive two quantum uncertainty relations for position and momentum coarse-grained measurements. Building on previous results, we first improve the lower bound for uncertainty relations using the Renyi entropy, particularly in the case of…

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We approximate a given rational spectral density by one that is consistent with prescribed second-order statistics. Such an approximation is obtained by minimizing a suitable distance from the given spectrum and under the constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-19 Mattia Zorzi

Information theory provides tools to predict the performance of a learning algorithm on a given dataset. For instance, the accuracy of learning an unknown parameter can be upper bounded by reducing the learning task to hypothesis testing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Evan Peters

We consider optimal scalar quantization with $r$th power distortion and constrained R\'enyi entropy of order $\alpha$. For sources with an absolutely continuous distribution the high rate asymptotics of the quantizer distortion has long…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-06 Wolfgang Kreitmeier , Tamas Linder

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

The entropy of a quantum system is a measure of its randomness, and has applications in measuring quantum entanglement. We study the problem of measuring the von Neumann entropy, $S(\rho)$, and R\'enyi entropy, $S_\alpha(\rho)$ of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Jayadev Acharya , Ibrahim Issa , Nirmal V. Shende , Aaron B. Wagner

The Barnum-Knill theorem states that the optimal success probability in the multiple state discrimination task is not more than the square root of the success probability when the pretty good or square-root measurement is used for this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Hemant K. Mishra , Ludovico Lami , Mark M. Wilde

We provide the sandwiched R\'enyi divergence of order $\alpha\in(\frac{1}{2},1)$, as well as its induced quantum information quantities, with an operational interpretation in the characterization of the exact strong converse exponents of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Ke Li , Yongsheng Yao

Ernst Specker considered a particular feature of quantum theory to be especially fundamental, namely that pairwise joint measurability of sharp measurements implies their global joint measurability (https://vimeo.com/52923835). To date,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-24 Tomáš Gonda , Ravi Kunjwal , David Schmid , Elie Wolfe , Ana Belén Sainz

Let $\psi:\mathbb{N}\to\mathbb{R}_{\ge0}$ be an arbitrary function from the positive integers to the non-negative reals. Consider the set $\mathcal{A}$ of real numbers $\alpha$ for which there are infinitely many reduced fractions $a/q$…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Dimitris Koukoulopoulos , James Maynard

Any reasonable measure of distinguishability of quantum states must satisfy a data processing inequality, that is, it must not increase under the action of a quantum channel. We can ask about the proportion of information lost or preserved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Shreyas Iyer , Peixue Wu , Paula Belzig , Graeme Smith

The article presents a generalization of the classical Hardy-Littlewood conjecture concerning the density of prime tuples to the case of tuples consisting of almost-prime numbers (numbers with a specified quantity of prime divisors). The…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Victor Volfson

Estimation of Shannon and R\'enyi entropies of unknown discrete distributions is a fundamental problem in statistical property testing and an active research topic in both theoretical computer science and information theory. Tight bounds on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Tongyang Li , Xiaodi Wu

A new quantum divergence induced from the $\alpha-z$ Renyi relative entropy, called the $\alpha-z$ Bures-Wasserstein quantum divergence, has been recently introduced. We investigate in this paper properties of the right mean, which is a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Miran Jeong , Jinmi Hwang , Sejong Kim

Properties of scalar quantization with $r$th power distortion and constrained R\'enyi entropy of order $\alpha\in (0,1)$ are investigated. For an asymptotically (high-rate) optimal sequence of quantizers, the contribution to the R\'enyi…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-27 Wolfgang Kreitmeier , Tamas Linder

We study the question of how reliably one can distinguish two quantum field theories (QFTs). Each QFT defines a probability distribution on the space of fields. The relative entropy provides a notion of proximity between these distributions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-08 Vijay Balasubramanian , Jonathan J. Heckman , Alexander Maloney

We study the renormalization of the Fermi-liquid parameters in the vicinity of a density wave quantum phase transition, which should occur in MOSFET systems at low densities. First, using a perturbative RPA treatment of fluctuations, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-01-14 Victor Galitski , V. A. Khodel

We set out to demonstrate that the R\'enyi entropies with parameter $\alpha$ are better thought of as operating in a type of non-linear semiring called a positive semifield. We show how the R\'enyi's postulates lead to Pap's g-calculus…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Francisco J. Valverde-Albacete , Carmen Peláez-Moreno

We calculate the limiting behavior of relative Renyi entropy when the first probability distribution is close to the second one in a non-regular location-shift family which is generated by a probability distribution whose support is an…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Masahito Hayashi

This work investigates binary hypothesis testing between $H_0\sim P_0$ and $H_1\sim P_1$ in the finite-sample regime under asymmetric error constraints. By employing the ``reverse" R\'enyi divergence, we derive novel non-asymptotic bounds…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Roberto Bruno , Adrien Vandenbroucque , Amedeo Roberto Esposito