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Utilizing the Tomita-Takesaki modular theory, we derive a closed-form analytic expression for the Araki-Uhlmann relative entropy between a single-mode squeezed state and the vacuum state in a free relativistic massive scalar Quantum Field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-01 Marcelo S. Guimaraes , Itzhak Roditi , Silvio P. Sorella , Arthur F. Vieira

Variation of the von Neumann entropy by the Lorentz transformation is discussed. Taking the spin-singlet state in the center of mass frame, the von Neumann entropy in the laboratory frame is calculated from the reduced density matrix…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yoshihisa Nishikawa

The mixing of two different gases is one of the most common natural phenomena, with applications ranging from CO$_2$ capture to water purification. Traditionally, mixing is analyzed in the context of local thermal equilibrium, where systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Budhaditya Bhattacharjee , Rohit Kishan Ray , Dominik Šafránek

So-called average subsystem entropies are defined by first taking partial traces over some pure state to define density matrices, then calculating the subsystem entropies, and finally averaging over the pure states to define the average…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-02 Ana Alonso-Serrano , Matt Visser

The entanglement entropy of a pure quantum state of a bipartite system is defined as the von Neumann entropy of the reduced density matrix obtained by tracing over one of the two parts. Critical ground states of local Hamiltonians in one…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-08 Eduardo Fradkin

Entanglement is considered a fundamental ingredient for quantum technologies and condensed matter systems are among the good candidates for quantum devices. For bipartite pure states the von Neumann entropy is a proper measure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 T. Pauletti , M. Garcia , G. A. Canella , V. V. França

The relative entropy of two n-party quantum states is an important quantity exhibiting, for example, the extent to which the two states are different. The relative entropy of the states formed by reducing two n-party to a smaller number $m$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Ben Ibinson , Noah Linden , Andreas Winter

Theoretical understanding of the scaling of entropies and the mutual information has led to significant advances in the research of correlated states of matter, quantum field theory, and gravity. Measuring von Neumann entropy in quantum…

The quantum entropy-typical subspace theory is specified. It is shown that any mixed state with von Neumann entropy less than h can be preserved approximately by the entropy-typical subspace with entropy= h. This result implies an universal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-22 Jingliang Gao , Yanbo Yang

Statistical formulations of thermodynamic entropy, such as those by Boltzmann and Gibbs, were originally developed for classical systems and are well understood in that context. However, the foundational aspects of quantum statistical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Smitarani Mishra , Shaon Sahoo

This text studies, on the one hand, certain monotonicity properties of the Araki-Uhlmann relative entropy and, on the other hand, unbounded perturbation theory of KMS-states which facilitates a proof of the two-sided Bogoliubov inequality…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Benedikt M. Reible

We compute Araki's relative entropy associated to a bounded interval $I=(a,b)$ between a thermal state and a coherent excitation of itself in the bosonic U(1)-current model, namely the (derivative of the) chiral boson. For this purpose we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-28 Alan Garbarz , Gabriel Palau

We investigate quantum dynamical systems defined on a finite dimensional Hilbert space and subjected to an interaction with an environment. The rate of decoherence of initially pure states, measured by the increase of their von Neumann…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Robert Alicki , Artur Lozinski , Prot Pakonski , Karol Zyczkowski

We define a quantum entropy conditioned on post-selection which has the von Neumann entropy of pure states as a special case. This conditional entropy can take negative values which is consistent with part of a quantum system containing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-05 Sina Salek , Roman Schubert , Karoline Wiesner

We establish a tight upper bound for the difference in von Neumann entropies between two quantum states, $\rho_1$ and $\rho_2$. This bound is expressed in terms of the von Neumann entropies of the mutually orthogonal states derived from the…

The entanglement entropy of a pure quantum state of a bipartite system $A \cup B$ is defined as the von Neumann entropy of the reduced density matrix obtained by tracing over one of the two parts. Critical ground states of local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-26 Eduardo Fradkin , Joel E. Moore

Quantum entropy is an important measure for describing the uncertainty of a quantum state, more uncertainty in subsystems implies stronger quantum entanglement between subsystems. Our goal in this work is to quantify bipartite entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-18 Xue Yang , Yan-Han Yang , Li-Ming Zhao , Ming-Xing Luo

We compute analytically the statistics of the Renyi and von Neumann entropies (standard measures of entanglement), for a random pure state in a large bipartite quantum system. The full probability distribution is computed by first mapping…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-05-30 Celine Nadal , Satya N Majumdar , Massimo Vergassola

We develop a quantum relative entropy method for the mean-field limit of quantum many-body systems. For closed systems governed by the von Neumann equation, we prove a quantitative stability estimate between the $N$-body density matrix and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Gaoyue Guo , Hao Liang , Zhenfu Wang

Relative entropy is a measure of distinguishability for quantum states, and plays a central role in quantum information theory. The family of Renyi entropies generalizes to Renyi relative entropies that include as special cases most entropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-12 Nima Lashkari