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The ability of quantum states to be in superposition is one of the key features that sets them apart from the classical world. This `coherence' is rigorously quantified by resource theories, which aim to understand how such properties may…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Ruvi Lecamwasam , Syed M Assad , Joseph J Hope , Ping Koy Lam , Jayne Thompson , Mile Gu

A novel measure, quantumness of correlations is introduced here for bipartite states, by incorporating the required measurement scheme crucial in defining any such quantity. Quantumness coincides with the previously proposed measures in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-20 A. R. Usha Devi , A. K. Rajagopal

This paper introduces "swiveled Renyi entropies" as an alternative to the Renyi entropic quantities put forward in [Berta et al., Phys. Rev. A 91, 022333 (2015)]. What distinguishes the swiveled Renyi entropies from the prior proposal of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-22 Frédéric Dupuis , Mark M. Wilde

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 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

The operational characterization of quantum coherence is the corner stone in the development of resource theory of coherence. We introduce a new coherence quantifier based on max-relative entropy. We prove that max-relative entropy of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Kaifeng Bu , Uttam Singh , Shao-Ming Fei , Arun Kumar Pati , Junde Wu

Quantum data processing inequality bounds the set of bipartite states that can be generated by two far apart parties under local operations; Having access to a bipartite state as a resource, two parties cannot locally transform it to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 Salman Beigi

Quantum information quantities play a substantial role in characterizing operational quantities in various quantum information-theoretic problems. We consider numerical computation of four quantum information quantities: Petz-Augustin…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Jun-Kai You , Hao-Chung Cheng , Yen-Huan Li

The $\alpha$-sandwiched R\'enyi divergence satisfies the data processing inequality, i.e. monotonicity under quantum operations, for $\alpha\geq 1/2$. In this article, we derive a necessary and sufficient algebraic condition for equality in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-15 Felix Leditzky , Cambyse Rouzé , Nilanjana Datta

The fidelity-based smooth min-relative entropy is a distinguishability measure that has appeared in a variety of contexts in prior work on quantum information, including resource theories like thermodynamics and coherence. Here we provide a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Theshani Nuradha , Mark M. Wilde

Two typical fixed-length random number generation problems in information theory are considered for general sources. One is the source resolvability problem and the other is the intrinsic randomness problem. In each of these problems, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Ryo Nomura , Hideki Yagi

Quantum relative entropy optimization refers to a class of convex problems in which a linear functional is minimized over an affine section of the epigraph of the quantum relative entropy function. Recently, the self-concordance of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Kerry He , James Saunderson , Hamza Fawzi

B. Schumacher and M. Westmoreland have established a quantum analog of a well-known classical information theory result on a role of relative entropy as a measure of non-optimality in (classical) data compression. In this paper, we provide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-08 Alexei Kaltchenko

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

It has been shown that the $\alpha-z$ R{\'e}nyi relative entropy satisfies the Data Processing Inequality (DPI) for a certain range of $\alpha$'s and $z$'s. Moreover, the range is completely characterized by Zhang in `20. We prove necessary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Sarah Chehade

Quantum machine learning is an emerging field at the intersection of machine learning and quantum computing. Classical cross entropy plays a central role in machine learning. We define its quantum generalization, the quantum cross entropy,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Zhou Shangnan , Yixu Wang

Estimation of quantum relative entropy and its R\'{e}nyi generalizations is a fundamental statistical task in quantum information theory, physics, and beyond. While several estimators of these divergences have been proposed in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-16 Sreejith Sreekumar , Mario Berta

The data processing inequality (DPI) is a fundamental feature of information theory. Informally it states that you cannot increase the information content of a quantum system by acting on it with a local physical operation. When the smooth…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-05 Normand J. Beaudry , Renato Renner

This work advances the theoretical understanding of quantum learning by establishing a new family of upper bounds on the expected generalization error of quantum learning algorithms, leveraging the framework introduced by Caro et al. (2024)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Naqueeb Ahmad Warsi , Ayanava Dasgupta , Masahito Hayashi

We investigate quantum R\'enyi entropic quantities, specifically those derived from 'sandwiched' divergence. This divergence is one of several proposed R\'enyi generalisations of the quantum relative entropy. We may define R\'enyi…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Alexander McKinlay